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Nadler added: “This violence was anything but spontaneous; it was the direct result of a conspiracy to incite a riot, instigated by President Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.”
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and Trump’s close ally, and both far-right groups are also listed in the complaint as being culpable for the Capitol violence. Both the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys face accusations of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
The House Democrats joined their colleague Rep. Bennie Thompson
The revised complaint was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., by the NAACP and law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.
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Fidelity fends off suit over 401(k) access fees for fund managers
The plaintiffs maintained that Fidelity was a fiduciary to the plan in respect to the selection of investment options, but courts did not buy that argument. Separately, New York Life and USI Insurance face new 401(k) lawsuits.
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Fidelity Investments has fought off a class-action lawsuit challenging its practice of charging third-party mutual funds for shelf space in its 401(k) record-keeping business, recent court records show.
The firm was initially sued in 2019 by several different groups of participants in the T-Mobile 401(k) plan, though those cases were eventually consolidated. The claims were unsuccessful, and the case was dismissed at the district court level early last year.
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March 10, 2021
Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the Eastern District of Michigan lawsuit following the Flint Water Crisis filed a motion on Monday asking the court to award a structure for attorneysâ fees which would grant them over $200 million, almost one-third of the proposed settlement amount of $641.25 million. Reportedly, the plaintiffsâ counsel spent 182,571 hours working on the matter.Â
The proposed settlement reached by the parties would give 79.5% of the amount to plaintiffs who are minor children who were allegedly harmed by extended exposure to lead in the cityâs water system, 18% to adults claiming property damages, 2% to programs to aid in relief, and 0.5% to businesses claiming economic losses. Although the settlement has been given preliminary approval, it is not yet final, and has received some critiques.Â
LANSING – Lawyers involved in a massive settlement of civil lawsuits arising from the Flint water crisis would receive up to $202.8 million in attorney fees, plus nearly $7.2 million in expenses, under a proposal filed with a federal judge late Monday night.
Overall, attorney fees would consume about 32% of the total settlement of $641.25 million. That percentage is in line with contingency fees in civil lawsuits, but experts interviewed Monday said it is a high percentage for a megafund settlement like the one for Flint.
It will be up to U.S. District Judge Judith Levy, who is handling the case, to decide the attorney fee question.