Supplemental Authority Calls Class Incentive Circuit Conflict ‘Stark And Concrete’

Mealey's (May 19, 2021, 11:04 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — An en banc rehearing is “an urgent imperative” after a split 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in September held that a $6,000 incentive award for a class representative in a settlement violated century-old Supreme Court precedent as the circuit conflict has been shown to be “stark and concrete” in the time that has passed since rehearing petitions were filed in October, counsel for the original plaintiff writes in a May 18 supplemental authority....