A U.S. judge has awarded a fraction of the $15 million in attorney fees and costs that plaintiffs lawyers at Boies, Schiller & Flexner; Susman Godfrey; and Hausfeld were seeking to add onto a historic jury verdict in a price-fixing case against Chinese Vitamin C manufacturers.
In a 12-page ruling issued on Monday, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn granted $4.1 million in attorney fees and no costs. Plaintiffs lawyers sought the fees under a fee-shifting provision in federal antitrust law that allows prevailing plaintiffs to recover their attorney fees and add it to their judgment, said Boies Schiller partner William Isaacson.
