Divided 11th Circuit Denies Rehearing After Banning Class Representative Incentives

Mealey's (August 4, 2022, 9:32 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A split 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 3, more than a year after the last briefing on the matter, denied rehearing en banc in the appeal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class settlement after a divided panel in September 2020 partially vacated approval and held in part 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.”...