Customers wearing masks to protect against Covid-19 wait on line at Home Depot in East Hanover, N.J., in April. (Courthouse News photo/Nick Rummell)
ATLANTA (CN) Home Depot asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to overturn an order requiring it to pay $15.3 million in fees and expenses to lawyers who litigated a class action case against the retailer for a 2014 credit card data breach affecting 56 million customers.
The original $15.3 million award was handed down by an Atlanta federal judge in 2017 but the 11th Circuit scrapped it last year, finding that the award improperly included a multiplier that enhanced the fees as compensation for the litigation risk assumed by the attorneys.