Entertainment & Sports
Dec. 21, 2022
$6.6M in fees too much for $24M women's soccer deal, says Hope Solo
The former athlete believes that the record is inconsistent with what courts have come to expect in class actions “to support a 5% upward adjustment from the 9th Circuit’s 25% bench mark,” her attorney, A.J. de Bartolomeo, a partner at Tadler Law LLP, wrote in an objection.
Class counsel who achieved a federal judge's approval of a $24 million equal pay settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation are asking for unreasonably high hourly rates, an attorney for former women's team goalkeeper Hope Solo stated in her client's objection to the attorney fees.
"Solo believes that three items warrant the court's careful eye as it conducts the requisite detailed analysis," wrote A.J. de Bartolomeo, a partner at Tadler ...
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