The Philadelphia federal judge overseeing multidistrict antitrust litigation over alleged price-fixing in the egg and egg products market has issued an order on a 15-month-old motion for $7.5 million in fees filed by co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs.
On July 18, two days after signing off on antitrust settlements worth $25 million for direct purchasers, U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania refused to decide the motion, instead demanding that the lawyers provide a trove of information on their work on the case including details of any behind-the-scenes agreements between the plaintiffs firms. The order is near-unprecedented in its scope, particularly because no one appears to have objected to the settlement or to the firm’s fee request.
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