Hess v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

DEBORAH B. BARNES, PRESIDING JUDGE:

¶ 1 The trial court previously granted attorney fees against Defendant/Appellant/Counter-Appellee Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., (Volkswagen) in an amount exceeding $7 million in this multi-jurisdic-tional, class action law suit. In an appeal from that award, the Oklahoma Supreme Court concluded the trial court abused its discretion by failing to deduct the entirety of fees claimed in certain “failed Florida litigation” when calculating the lodestar fee; the Court also concluded the trial court abused its discretion by multiplying the lodestar fee of…