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Litigation

Jul. 26, 2003

1st DCA Sends Huge Attorney Fee Deal Back Down

SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims over vitamin price-fixing after most of the defendants already have admitted criminal wrongdoing?

By Peter Blumberg
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims over vitamin price-fixing after most of the defendants already have admitted criminal wrongdoing?
        It's doubtful, a unanimou...

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