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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...

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...

Today a federal jury rejected Alexandra Marchuk’s claims of employment discrimination against the Faruqi & Faruqi law firm and partner Juan Monteverde. Marchuk alleged that Monteverde had raped her in Faruqi’s offices after the firm’s holiday party in 2011. Marchuk also alleged that when she filed her Title VII claim, the firm retaliated against her by issuing a defamatory press release ...

Today a California jury rejected Sprint’s billion-dollar cross-claim against a certified class of 2 million customers, in a second trial concerning Sprint’s illegal termination fees. After a month-long trial in 2008, the class represented by Bursor & Fisher prevailed on all of their claims challenging Sprint’s termination fees. The 2008 trial resulted in a finding that Sprint’s $150 an...