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Connecticut Law Tribune

AG Tong Weighs Litigation Against Optimum Over Plan to Raise Prices, Decrease Internet Speeds

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is calling on Optimum to change its current plans, which would see new pricing tiers for its broadband customers that would decrease internet upload speeds.
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Daily Business Review

Some Attorneys Are Applauding a New Appellate Ruling. Here's What It Means

"Here, we won this case because we believed in our arguments and sought for the Florida Supreme Court to take jurisdiction of the case, which it ultimately did and reversed back to the Fourth District," attorney Kendrick Almaguer said.
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Daily Business Review

Bad News for Kluger Kaplan in Fight for $1M in Attorney Fees: US 11th Circuit Rules Against Law Firm

"It would violate the principles of collateral estoppel to allow appellants to relitigate this issue simply because they recharacterized their claim as one of bad faith rather than breach of contract," the federal appeals judges stated in the opinion.
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Daily Business Review

Next Round Will Be Expensive: Florida Lawyers Weigh in on Attorney-Fee Ruling From Appellate Court

For other lawyers handling foreclosure defense cases now, Kendrick Almaguer of The Ticktin Law Group Almaguar and Partner of Oppenheim Law Roy Oppenheim in Weston said this could be a step in the right direction.
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The Recorder

Two Class Action Lawyers Sanctioned for Inflating Their Billable Hours

In a tentative order Thursday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Kirk Nakamura ordered attorneys David Yeremian and Jason Rothman to each pay $10,000 within 10 days. At issue was a declaration submitted in support of attorney fees stating that Rothman worked 357 hours, but added, "I actually worked 185.38 so the above hours are exaggerated to help us meet the lodestar but not seeming too far out of line."
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Law.com

The Tenth Circuit Weighs In on 'Kicker' and 'Clear-Sailing' Provisions in Class Action Settlements 

The circuit court held that district courts must apply "heightened scrutiny" to settlement agreements containing these provisions, because "the "presence of both agreements in a settlement agreement also suggests the class members may not be receiving all reasonable benefits."
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New York Law Journal

The IME and EUO No-Show Defenses Are 'Policy Issues' That Trigger Hourly Attorney Fees in No-Fault Insurance Cases

Insurers that seek to assert these defenses should remain cognizant of the fact that arbitration/litigation actions involving such disputes may expose them to higher attorney fees.
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Corporate Counsel

Alleging Fake Business Trips and 'Churning,' Tech Company Sues CLO's Defense Counsel for $20M

Cognizant Technology Solutions was obligated to pay for its chief legal officer's lawyers when he faced investigation, but the company was suspicious of one of the firms doing that work, a new lawsuit says.
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New York Law Journal

Robbins Geller Awarded $19.5M in Attorney Fees for Settling MetLife Class Action

The fees award, entered Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New York, capped nearly nine years of litigation in the case, which claimed that MetLife had overstated its financial health, despite accusations that it had improperly retained money it owed to insurance beneficiaries.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Despite Late Request, Replacement Lawyer Can't Escape Paying Former Counsel's Legal Fees, 3rd Circ. Rules

In doing so, the court's precedential opinion clarified the circumstances under which a district court has ancillary enforcement jurisdiction, allowing them to resolve disputes that arise in cases long after the primary issues have been finalized.
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