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) joined in the request that U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland, Ohio, reject a request by a committee of plaintiffs’ lawyers for a 7% fee assessed against any settlements. They filed their brief late Wednesday.
The fee would be paid to the so-called plaintiffs executive committee that is litigating thousands of lawsuits by towns, counties and tribal governments that have been consolidated before Polster. “The scope of that demand is staggering,” the companies said in Wednesday’s joint filing. They said the 7% assessment would “give the PEC more money than any city or county in the country, and more than many states.”In court filings, PEC lawyers described the fee request as “modest” given the complex litigation. Such a fee, to compensate for lawyers’ time and expenses, is a feature of complex nationwide litigation.
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