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In Re: Optical Disk Drive Products Antitrust Litigation

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Case Number:

3:10-md-02143

Court:

California Northern

Nature of Suit:

Anti-Trust

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action, Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Richard Seeborg

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  1. October 27, 2020

    Hagens Berman Says It Earned Every Penny Of $48M Fees

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP continued on Monday to defend its demand for $48 million in attorney fees from optical disk drive price-fixing settlements, saying the litigation was high risk and they deserve a high reward.

  2. October 16, 2020

    Hagens Berman 'Defiance' Voids $48M Fee Award, Judge Told

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP should not be awarded any of the attorney fees it got from a series of disk drive price-fixing settlements after it "defiantly" held on to about $48 million in fees, despite the Ninth Circuit's decision vacating the award, an objector in the buyers' class argued Thursday.

  3. October 08, 2020

    Hagens Berman Says It Doesn't Have To Repay $48M In Fees

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has said it doesn't have to return about $48 million in attorney fee awards it got from a series of price-fixing settlements because the Ninth Circuit simply vacated and remanded the fees to a lower court, rather than reversing or modifying the award decision.

  4. November 21, 2019

    9th Circ. Won't Revive DVD Drive Price-Fixing Suit

    The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive claims from consumers accusing two DVD drive makers of participating in a conspiracy to fix prices, affirming a lower court's ruling that testimony of the buyers' expert was too hypothetical.

  5. March 15, 2019

    Objector Tries Again To Undo $5M Fees In Disk-Drive MDL

    A disk drive buyer who challenged Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's push for $5 million in fees from a $25 million price-fixing settlement with Samsung and Toshiba in multidistrict litigation has moved to appeal a California federal judge's decision that shut down his objections.

  6. August 24, 2018

    Samsung, Toshiba Pay $25M To Exit Disk Drive Price-Fix MDL

    Samsung and Toshiba agreed to pay $25 million to end allegations they participated in an industry-wide conspiracy to fix optical disk drive prices, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the deal in California federal court Thursday.

  7. January 08, 2018

    Disk Drive Consumers Will Ask 9th Circ. To Revive MDL

    A class of optical disk drive end consumers on Friday said that they will go to the Ninth Circuit to try and revive their claims in multidistrict litigation accusing Samsung, Toshiba and Philips of conspiring to fix prices on the products that ended up in the computers the customers bought.

  8. December 19, 2017

    Philips, Toshiba, Samsung Granted Wins In Disk Drive MDL

    A California judge on Monday handed Samsung, Toshiba and Philips wins in the multidistrict litigation claiming they conspired to fix optical disk drive prices, finding several companies failed to show the alleged scheme specifically targeted them and ruling a class of indirect purchasers didn't prove it caused them to suffer.

  9. October 31, 2017

    HP Settles With NEC, Toshiba, Samsung In Disk Drive MDL

    Hewlett-Packard Co. reached settlements with NEC Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. to drop its claims in multidistrict antitrust litigation alleging the companies conspired to fix prices for optical disk drives, according to documents filed in California federal court on Tuesday.

  10. September 01, 2017

    Samsung, Toshiba Can't Toss Disk Drive MDL, Consumers Say

    Consumers hit back Thursday at Samsung, Toshiba and BenQ's bids to dodge claims against them in sprawling multidistrict antitrust litigation over an alleged conspiracy to fix prices for optical disk drives, arguing in California federal court that direct and circumstantial evidence implicates all three of them.