“Given the prominence of the (Equifax) case,” Edelson said, “it will take a decade to undo the reputational damage done to plaintiffs’ work in the court of public opinion.”Ĭlass counsel Amy Keller of DiCello Levitt declined to comment beyond the filing and Equifax counsel David Balser of K&S did not immediately respond to an email query.Įdelson is certainly right that the Equifax case has attracted far more public attention than class actions usually do, mostly because of erroneous reports soon after Equifax settled that class members could claim a $125 cash payout even if their data had not been misused. “They told us that before we filed.”īut what the Equifax and class counsel briefs don’t address, Edelson said, is his concern that the Equifax settlement reinforces cynicism about a system that rewards class counsel but delivers only pennies on the dollar to class members whose interests are at stake. “We knew that they would go after me personally,” he said. In that context, class counsel said, Edelson’s criticism of the class settlement “should be of no persuasive value.”Įdelson said by email that he was expecting no less than what Equifax and class counsel dished out in the new briefs. ![]() District Judge Thomas Thrash approved the consumer class action, with Edelson “abandoning any claim for additional restitutionary relief,” despite the city’s assertion of statutory claims. Chicago, class counsel said, settled with Equifax for “just $1.5 million” after U.S. Equifax derided Edelson’s “Monday morning quarterbacking” and “biased, hyperbolic rhetoric.” Class counsel suggested that Edelson’s own representation of Chicago undercuts his amicus arguments that the class action deal failed to account for claims by class members from states with big statutory penalties for privacy breaches. Class counsel from Doffermyre Shields Canfield & Knowles, DiCello Levitt Gutzler and Stueve Siegel Hanson accused Edelson of “touting false assertions” and failing “to disclose key facts that would reveal he is a partisan litigant." Equifax’s lawyers at King & Spalding argued that Edelson is not a proper amicus because, among other things, he represented the city of Chicago in the underlying litigation and may himself be a member of the class of nearly 150 million Americans whose data was compromised in the 2017 Equifax hack. ![]() ![]() On Monday, he reaped the whirlwind.īoth Equifax and class counsel filed briefs asking the 11th Circuit to reject Edelson’s amicus filing.
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