A federal judge in Los Angeles struck down the proposed attorney fees in a class action settlement against Toyota Motor Corp. over Prius headlights, calling the $4.7 million request “highly unreasonable” for a case with “narrow, not complex” legal work.
“This could not be a simpler case,” said U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, who granted final approval of the settlement, which he estimated at more than $3.8 million, but reduced the fee request to about 20 percent of that value, or $766,000.
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