Eighth Circuit Reverses $78.75 Million Attorney Fee in T-Mobile Data Breach Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has reversed a $78.75 million attorney fee award in the T-Mobile data breach litigation, deeming a multiplier of 9.6 times the attorneys’ hourly rate unreasonable. The decision emerged from a $350 million settlement involving T-Mobile, following a data breach affecting approximately 76.6 million individuals. Judge Morris S. Arnold, who authored the opinion, expressed that allowing such a fee would translate to hourly rates between $7,000 and $9,500, an amount no reasonable class member would likely agree to pay. For further details, see the original article.