Harvey
Harvey v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BRANDON HARVEY, Case No. 18-cv-02835-WHO
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR
v. DENIAL AND DISGORGEMENT
MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY Re: Dkt. No. 171
LLC,
11 Defendant.
12 Matthew Lucadano and Tracy Chen were objectors and proposed intervenors to the 13 settlement agreement for which I granted final approval and that was affirmed on most material 14 terms by the Ninth Circuit. All of the arguments raised by Lucadano and Chen were rejected 15 except ones that led to a slight narrowing of the certified-for-settlement class. The settlement 16 agreement is final and all initial and subsequent distributions have been paid to class members. 17 See Dkt. No. 179. 18 Nonetheless, Lucadano and Chen filed another heated motion to vacate my award of 19 attorney fees to plaintiff Harvey’s counsel for efforts in securing the settlement, to deny further 20 distributions of attorney fees to Harvey’s counsel from the settlement fund, and to disgorge past payments of attorney fees made to…