I was going to complain about the tens of millions attorneys will take for the parasitical settlement in a California class action, but Josh Wright has beaten me to it with a post analyzing the underlying Conwood billion-dollar mugging; he's also done much more extensive work on the subject.
$96m Smokeless Tobacco Cases class action settlement
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Rafael Mangual Project Manager, Legal Policy rmangual@manhattan-institute.org |
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