“Simply not appropriate.”
That’s what U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer had to say Wednesday about the $28.5 million fee request from plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro for the work it led on the diesel emissions settlement between Volkswagen AG and its franchise dealers. Breyer slashed the request by nearly 90 percent, awarding just under $3 million in attorney fees.
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