Class action expert Ted Frank joins to discuss a Ninth Circuit case where the court didn’t think giving class members crummy coupons warranted almost $15 million in attorneys fees. IJ Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes then gets some religion about land use and how the Alabama Constitution protects Buddhists in starting a meditation center.

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Transcript: https://staging.ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Short-Circuit-Episode-154-Edited.pdf
Chambers v. Whirlpool Corp., https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/11/10/16-56666.pdf
Thai Meditation Association of Alabama v. City of Mobile, https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201912418.pdf
Ted Frank, https://hlli.org/ted-frank/
Jeff Rowes, https://staging.ij.org/staff/jrowes/
Anthony Sanders, https://staging.ij.org/staff/asanders/

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