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On April 17, 2020, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers granted Bursor & Fisher’s application for a 33.33% fee award on the $267 million trial verdict in Perez v. Rash Curtis, awarding attorney’s fees just over $89 million. A copy of Judge Gonzalez-Rogers’ order can be found here. “The court recognized the result we achieved was ‘extraordinarily good,’ more than triple the largest TCP...

On December 9, 2019, Judge Harry D. Lieneweber of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment against Holiday Cruise Line for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making prerecorded calls to class members in the state of Illinois without prior consent. “Judge Lienenweber’s order granting Plaintiffs’...

Today, a federal judge in Oakland entered a $267 million judgment in a class action against debt collector Rash Curtis & Associates.  The judgment followed a May 2019 jury verdict finding Rash Curtis had made more than 532,000 auto-dialed calls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. “Our clients are quite happy with the jury’s verdict, obviously,” said Scott A. Bursor...

On January 23, 2019, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval to the $4.1 million class action settlement in West v. California Service Bureau, Inc. Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2016 alleging that the defendant repeatedly called class members on their cellular telephones using an autodialer without ...

On December 11, 2017, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of persons who received “wrong-number” robocalls from California Service Bureau, a debt collector. Plaintiffs allege these calls violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.  Judge Gonzalez Rogers also appointed Bursor ...

On September 6, 2017, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of persons who received prerecorded messages and robocalls from Rash Curtis, a debt collector. Plaintiffs allege these calls violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Judge Gonzalez Rogers also appointed Bursor & Fish...