{"id":2044,"date":"2024-07-29T23:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T23:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/8th-circuit-reverses-78-75-million-attorney-fee-award-in-t-mobile-settlement\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T23:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T23:32:31","slug":"8th-circuit-reverses-78-75-million-attorney-fee-award-in-t-mobile-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/8th-circuit-reverses-78-75-million-attorney-fee-award-in-t-mobile-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Circuit Reverses $78.75 Million Attorney Fee Award in T-Mobile Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a $78.75 million award for class counsel\u00a0in a $350 million settlement against T-Mobile, concluding a\u00a0multiplier of nearly 10 times the attorneys\u2019 hourly rate\u2014upwards of $9,500\u2014was unreasonable.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Eejhfbcb2aTjp2IvVHjCvi_e7Z-clUqK\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 29 opinion<\/a>, authored by Judge\u00a0Morris S. Arnold, the three judge panel sent the plaintiffs\u2019 attorney fee award back to the\u00a0the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri following\u00a0multi-district litigation against T-Mobile relating to a data breach. An estimated\u00a076.6 million people were affected when hackers obtained confidential information and sold or attempted to sell it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a $78.75 million award for class counsel\u00a0in a $350 million settlement against T-Mobile, concluding a\u00a0multiplier of nearly 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1445,1585,1202,610,717,1159,2294,399,2769],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-8th","tag-attorney","tag-award","tag-circuit","tag-fee","tag-million","tag-reverses","tag-settlement","tag-tmobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}