Prevailed on Summary Judgment in a Race Discrimination / Retaliation Case

Payne & Fears LLP was recently retained as trial counsel in a hotly contested race discrimination and retaliation case. At mediation, Plaintiff was demanding $6 million to settle and prior counsel had been unable to resolve the case. The trial team of Dan Fears, Jeff Brown, Ray Boggess and Sean...

Payne & Fears LLP Granted Final Approval of $11.75 Million Class Settlement in TCPA Litigation

Payne & Fears LLP secured a victory on behalf of client Craftwood Lumber Company in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation in Illinois state court. The Lake County Circuit Court granted final approval of the $11.75 million class settlement that the Firm secured for recipients of faxes announcing price...

Unlicensed Contractor Agrees to Drop Million Dollar Suit Against SpaceX

Payne & Fears LLP recently obtained a victory in favor of their client, SpaceX, before the California Court of Appeal which upheld the dismissal of certain claims against SpaceX by an unlicensed contractor seeking to collect on what it claimed were over $1 million in unpaid invoices.  In Phoenix Mechanical Pipeline,...

Final Approval of $25M TCPA Lawsuit Granted

Payne & Fears LLP received a major victory in the RehabCare Group Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) litigation in the Eastern District of California. Judge Dale A. Drozd released his decision granting final approval of the $25 million class settlement the Firm had obtained for recipients of “Polaris Group” junk...

Statewide PAGA Claim Eliminated

Payne & Fears obtained an order striking the representative PAGA claims from a statewide wage-and-hour action, thus reducing size of the case from over 250,000 members to a mere handful of individual claims. Five former employees sued Payne & Fears’ client, a large multistate retailer, for meal and rest period violations...