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On September 29, 2021, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that the Syrian Arab Republic was liable to the families of five victims of ISIS terrorist attacks in the amount of $849,956,529.28. The ISIS attacks at issue were: (1) the November 9, 2015 shooting in Amman, Jordan; (2) the November 13, 2015 shooting in Paris, France; (3) the July 14, 2016 tr...

On September 16, 2020, payments were sent to class members as part of the $3.85 million settlement in Kokoszki v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. The settlement was approved by Judge Bernard A. Friedman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 19, 2020, and provides for cash payments to class members of approximately $110 each. “We are thrilled that the s...

On July 22 2020, Judge Christopher Kolker of the 20th Judicial Circuit Court for St. Clair County, Illinois granted final approval to the class action settlement in Moore v. Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.  The settlement provides over $11 million in benefits to the Class.  Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Kimberly-Clark manufactured and sold defective U by Kotex® Ta...

On July 15, 2022, payments were sent to class members as part of the $2.25 million settlement in Frederick, et al. v. ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc.  The settlement was approved by Judge David E. Schwartz of the Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois on April 7, 2022, and provides class members automatic payments of a pro-rated share of the settlement fund, depending on whether the student took an e...

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 January 16, 2020, Judge Victoria A. Roberts of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan denied Crain Communications’ motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that Crain violated the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act (the “PPPA”) by disclosing its subscribers’ personal information without their consent. Notably, the ruling found that t...

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’...

On October 25, 2019, payments were sent to class members as part of the $16 million settlement in Melgar v. Zicam.  The settlement was approved by Judge Morrison England of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on November 20, 2018.  112,249 class members will receive checks for an average payment of $84.82 each. “We are thrilled that settlement payments are...

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...