11th Circuit Remains Outlier On Class Service Awards 5 Years After Johnson v. NPAS

( November 6, 2025, 8:42 AM EST) -- In September 2020, a divided 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals cited century-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent when the majority ruled that a $6,000 incentive award for a class representative’s “‘role in prosecuting’” a Telephone Consumer Protection Act “‘case on behalf of the [c]lass [m]embers’” was improper as it was “part salary and part bounty.”...

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