Apple and Amazon ask for sanctions against prominent class action law firm

Apple and Amazon have asked for a combined $223,000 in sanctions against a prominent class action law firm, accusing it of dragging out litigation over the price of iPhones and iPads after the initial plaintiff in the case sought to drop out.
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U.S. District Judge Kymberly Evanson in Seattle last month said, opens new tab the companies could ask to recover legal fees from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro for failing to immediately disclose that its client wanted out of the case.
Hagens Berman “needlessly prolonged this litigation and required considerable judicial resources,” Evanson said.
The companies said in their fee request on Friday, opens new tab that their legal teams worked more than 350 hours on motions relating to seeking information about the plaintiff…
The lawsuit, which accuses the companies of conspiring to artificially inflate the price of iPhones and iPads sold on Amazon’s platform, is continuing after other plaintiffs were added to the case.

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MacDailyNews Note: According to the report, Hagens Berman client Steven Floyd told his lawyers in January 2024 that he wanted out of the litigation because he did not want to participate in the discovery process, but the firm did not immediately disclose this to the court, according to the judge, and instead created the impression that Floyd “had suddenly fallen out of contact in January 2024, for reasons his counsel did not know and possibly unrelated to the litigation.”

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