Class Action
Nov. 11, 2022
Judge dubious of need for class counsel in PFAS litigation
Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg asked whether the motion was for the benefit of the attorneys and not their clients. “Having seven lawyers for a [case management conference] is ridiculous and having multiple people at depositions and all the rest of it is not in the class’ interest,” he continued.
A putative class suing The Clorox Co. and The Burt’s Bees Products Co. over chemicals in cosmetics asked a federal judge in San Francisco Thursday to appoint Bursor & Fisher P.A. and Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC as interim colead counsel.
The plaintiffs also sought to consolidate this case with a similar one filed in the Eastern District of New York and have it transferred to the Northern District of California.
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