Rehearing Petitions Expected After Split 11th Circuit Limits Class Rep Fee

Mealey's (October 14, 2020, 10:27 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has given both sides in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class dispute until Oct. 22 to file petitions for rehearing after a split panel ruled Sept. 17 that a $6,000 incentive award as part of a settlement agreement for the class representative’s “‘role in prosecuting th[e] case on behalf of the [c]lass [m]embers’” violated century-old Supreme Court precedent as it is “part salary and part bounty” (Jenna Dickenson v. NPAS Solutions, LLC, No. 18-12344, 11th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 29682)....