Follow POL on Twitter At the Federalist Society's Class Action Watch, Jack Park analyzes (and praises) a judge's ruling cutting attorney fees in a class action suit over precious-metal storage fees. Among other grounds for its action, the court discerned that the plaintiff's expert had manipulated assumptions so as to maximize the apparent value of the class's nonmonetary recovery.
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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