Former U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner should have to face claims pertaining to breach of contract and unjust enrichment in a lawsuit filed by Brian Vukadinovich, an Indiana man who says he is owed $170,000 for working at a short-lived center for self-represented litigants founded by the prominent jurist, a magistrate judge said in a written recommendation.
Vukadinovich’s fraud claim against Posner however, should be dismissed because it echoes another count in the lawsuit, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joshua Kolar of the U.S. District Court of Northern Indiana said in the recommendation.
Kolar’s recommendation is not binding, and the parties have two weeks to file objections to his report. A U.S. district judge will issue the final ruling on the motion to dismiss. Read more.
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Plaintiffs’ lawyers have asked a San Francisco federal judge to award more than $181 million in legal fees as part of a $725 million data privacy settlement with Facebook parent company Meta Platforms resolving claims over sharing of user information with third parties.
Co-lead counsel at plaintiffs law firms Keller Rohrback and Bleichmar Fonti & Auld said in a motion filed late Wednesday the fees would represent 25% of the settlement fund. Read more on the settlement.
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