A federal judge has slashed by more than half the plaintiffs fees in a closely watched consumer class action involving Bluetooth headsets, concluding that “no reasonable paying client” would pay such an amount.
U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer in Los Angeles on July 31 approved a settlement in the litigation, resolving claims that the headsets should have carried warnings about hearing loss. But she lowered the plaintiffs fees and costs to nearly $283,000 from the $800,000 figure she originally approved.
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