Response Calls Supplemental Authorities In Class Incentive Appeal ‘Inconsequential’

Mealey's (May 20, 2021, 8:54 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — In a May 19 response to a supplemental authority filed in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals one day earlier by counsel for the original plaintiff in a dispute now centering around whether class representative awards are appropriate and calling an en banc rehearing “an urgent imperative,” counsel for an objector in the case states that the opinions being cited that were issued by district court judges are “‘not binding’” and the unpublished appellate court opinions cited are “thoroughly inconsequential.”...