A federal judge in Camden has certified a junk-fax class-action suit despite objections that class counsel acted unethically in obtaining information about potential plaintiffs and soliciting their participation.
Chief U.S. District Judge Jerome Simandle called some of the lawyers’ actions ‘curious,” “clumsy” and even a violation of New Jersey ethics rules but said “courts must disregard ‘petty issues’ manufactured by defendants” to distract the judge from the “proper focus”—whether counsel will serve class interests with competence and loyalty.
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