Class Member’s Estate Appeals Attorney Fees Award In T-Mobile Data Breach Suit

(December 21, 2023, 11:33 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — Calling an attorney fees award of $78.75 million “preposterously high” for a multidistrict litigation that “lasted less than seven months from filing to settlement,” the estate of a class member who objected to the settlement in the suit over a data breach experienced by T-Mobile US Inc. and T-Mobile USA Inc. (T-Mobile, collectively), urges the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to adopt the “megafund rule” and a lower lodestar multiplier....