October 29, 2015
Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis handed over merchants' antitrust litigation targeting American Express Co. credit card swipe fees to well-known plaintiffs' advocate Michael D. Hausfeld Thursday for a new settlement effort after bad lawyer behavior derailed an initial accord.
September 29, 2015
The plaintiffs' attorney whose communications with a now-indicted attorney for MasterCard led a New York federal judge to toss an antitrust settlement with American Express Co. defended his work on the class action Tuesday, saying the court had "gotten so much so wrong" in the ruling.
September 18, 2015
A New York federal judge asked American Express Co. on Thursday to weigh in on whether attorneys for plaintiffs whose settlement with the credit card giant in an antitrust class action was recently rejected can cede the lead counsel role in the case to Hausfeld LLP.
September 09, 2015
Attorneys who helped negotiate a recently rejected antitrust class action settlement with American Express Co. said Tuesday they would turn over the lead counsel role in the case to Hausfeld LLP but asked to stay on the litigation as part of an executive committee.
August 25, 2015
Citibank NA wrote to the Second Circuit on Monday to correct purported misstatements in a recent letter sent by merchants appealing a $7.25 billion settlement over credit card swipe fees updating the court about a similar case involving American Express Co. in which a settlement was recently thrown out because of attorney misconduct.
August 20, 2015
Walgreen Co. and other merchant plaintiffs urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to enter an order preventing American Express from relitigating issues in their suits in the multibillion-dollar swipe fee dispute that have already been established by the court in the government's case, including liability.
August 19, 2015
A class of merchant plaintiffs in the multibillion-dollar swipe fee dispute involving several credit card companies urged a New York federal court on Tuesday not to grant a motion to vacate a fee award to an attorney under scrutiny for alleged improprieties, saying the motion was meritless.
August 18, 2015
Dechert LLP has informed a federal magistrate that its client Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP will submit emails and other documents that the firm discovered may have been transmitted to former Willkie Farr partner and MasterCard attorney Keila Ravelo in violation of a protective order in American Express interchange fee litigation.
August 05, 2015
A judge revealed details Tuesday about the improper communications between a lead plaintiffs' attorney in an antitrust class action against American Express Co. and a MasterCard Inc. lawyer, leading to questions about whether that misconduct threatens a related $7.25 billion settlement with MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. that the pair worked on.
August 05, 2015
An age-old problem for the legal profession — chummy lawyers on either side of cases — turned into a crisis this week for a plaintiffs' counsel and a pal at MasterCard Inc., a situation ethics experts called particularly notable because the oversharing came in the oppositional arena of a major class action.