A federal judge has approved a $2.4 million wage-and-hour settlement between plaintiffs and a toney New York sushi restaurant, but only after the class counsels’ fees were cut nearly in half and a caution about rubber-stamped proposed orders to plaintiffs’ attorneys and judges.
U.S. District Judge William Pauley III of the Southern District of New York used the occasion of the Nov. 12 settlement of Fujiwara v. Sushi Yasuda to warn that an “explosion” of Fair Labor Standards Act litigation, accompanied by too little oversight by judges, is resulting in a payday heyday for plaintiffs’ lawyers.
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