{"id":838638,"date":"2024-07-30T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T03:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=838638"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T03:57:28","slug":"us-appeals-court-tosses-windfall-78-mln-legal-fee-in-t-mobile-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/30\/us-appeals-court-tosses-windfall-78-mln-legal-fee-in-t-mobile-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"US appeals court tosses &#8216;windfall&#8217; $78 mln legal fee in T-Mobile lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. appeals court on Monday threw out a legal fee award of $78 million for plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers in a $350 million class action settlement with T-Mobile, calling the amount a &#8220;windfall&#8221; for the effort the attorneys put into the case.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that the awarded amount was excessive based on the hours of legal work expended by the lawyers behind the consumer privacy case, which T-Mobile agreed to settle in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. appeals court on Monday threw out a legal fee award of $78 million for plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers in a $350 million class action settlement with T-Mobile, calling the amount a &#8220;windfall&#8221; for the effort the attorneys put into the case. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that the awarded amount was excessive based on the hours of legal work expended by the lawyers behind the consumer privacy case, which T-Mobile agreed to settle in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}