Battle Over Attorney Fees in Home Depot Data Breach Case Returns to 11th Circuit
Customers wearing masks to protect against Covid-19 wait on line at Home Depot in East Hanover, N.J., in April. (Courthouse News photo/Nick Rummell) ATLANTA (CN) — Home Depot asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to overturn an order requiring it to pay $15.3 million in fees and expenses to lawyers who litigated a class action case against the retailer for a 2014 credit card data breach affecting 56 million customers. The original $15.3 million award was handed down by an Atlanta federal judge in 2017 but the 11th Circuit scrapped it last year, finding that the award improperly included a mu...
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