Federal judge issues scathing rebuke of MDL fee ‘holdbacks’

“What began as a healthy concern about the free rider problem seems to have evolved into an obsession,” wrote U.S. District Judge Vince G. Chhabria

The federal judge overseeing coordinated litigation about Monsanto's weed killer Roundup on Monday refused to mandate an 8.25% holdback of all recoveries nationwide -- including those not involved in the multi-district litigation and those not filed yet -- to contribute a common benefit fund established by lead plaintiffs' counsel.

The judge criticized the counsel's "free-rider obsession" as going "out of control."

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Jun. 22, 2021

Federal judge issues scathing rebuke of MDL fee ‘holdbacks’

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