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Weichert, following eXp once more, suffers settlement setback

By Editorial Board Published December 5, 2024 5 Min Read
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Weichert, following eXp once more, suffers settlement setback

The corporate’s request to pause one case whereas slicing a deal in one other was simply denied. The denial highlights an issue over a settlement technique often known as a “reverse auction.”

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Weichert hit a roadblock in its efforts to achieve a fee lawsuit settlement Thursday, with a choose blocking the corporate’s makes an attempt to pause one case whereas slicing a deal in one other.

The transfer highlights the continued controversy, and unanswered questions, a few novel settlement technique that was additionally used to still-uncertain impact by eXp Realty.

The gist of what simply occurred is that Weichert Actual Property Associates had requested for a “stay,” or pause, in a widely known antitrust lawsuit often known as Gibson. The corporate needed the keep as a result of it reached a settlement in a lesser-known case dubbed Hooper.

However on Thursday, the choose overseeing the Gibson case refused to offer Weichert the keep. In a five-page order, the choose wrote that the homeseller-plaintiffs within the Gibson case who opposed the keep “raise genuine issues of potentially questionable behavior regarding Weichert’s Hooper settlement which warrant further discovery in this case.”

“Given the alleged lack of financial considerations and quick settlement in the later filed Hooper case, granting a stay would not serve in the best interests of justice due to the possible irreparable harm resulting plaintiffs’ claims in this case being estopped due to a binding, underfunded class settlement in Hooper,” the choose additionally wrote.

The choose’s order wasn’t essentially sudden.

Weichert’s transfer to settle the Hooper case adopted the instance of eXp, which did the identical factor in early October. EXp additionally subsequently requested for a keep within the Gibson case, however in November was denied. In failing to get its desired pause, then, Weichert is as soon as once more following in eXp’s footsteps.

At difficulty in each settlements is a technique that the Gibson plaintiffs have described as a “reverse auction.” In essence, the tactic includes a defendant buying round amongst comparable class motion instances to seek out the most cost effective settlement. The plaintiffs particularly accused eXp of getting a “sweetheart” deal and want to pressure the corporate again to the negotiating desk.

However, eXp has defended its settlement, saying in court docket filings that there could be no ailing results from pausing the Gibson case whereas its deal is reviewed by the court docket overseeing the Hooper go well with.

In Weichert’s case, the corporate on Tuesday filed a doc with the court docket saying that it wants the Gibson case paused as a result of it’s at the moment having to interact in “extensive and burdensome discovery” with the plaintiffs within the go well with. The corporate additionally wrote that it “will be unfairly prejudiced if it is forced to continue expending resources on jurisdictional issues that will be mooted if its settlement is approved.”

Weichert additionally argued in its Tuesday submitting that the accusation it used a “reverse auction” to strike a deal is “completely baseless.”

U.S. District Court docket Choose Stephen Bough, nevertheless, was apparently not persuaded, and in his Thursday order denying Weichert’s keep request ordered the corporate and the plaintiffs to proceed engaged on the Gibson go well with.

“In line with the court’s previous order, Weichert and plaintiffs are ordered to engage in discovery regarding the timing and circumstances of Weichert’s Hooper settlement,” Bough wrote.

The place Weichert and eXp’s settlements head subsequent stays to be seen. However the state of affairs highlights the uncharted waters fee litigation is at the moment crusing in the intervening time and raises questions on which strategies corporations will have the ability to use to settle a sprawling variety of comparable antitrust lawsuits.

Learn the choose’s order denying Weichert’s request for a keep right here (if the doc doesn’t seem, refresh the web page):

Electronic mail Jim Dalrymple II

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