In its appeal over a $6 million fee award for its work on transvaginal mesh lawsuits, Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman has lodged a new weapon: a 2016 email purportedly promising the New Jersey firm a significant role in the allocation of fees.

The email is the latest salvo in Mazie Slater’s fight against the multidistrict litigation’s fee and cost committee (FCC), which has urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to dismiss its appeal. The firm has accused members of the fee and cost committee of self-dealing and padding their bills in the allocation of $550 million in common benefit fees.

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