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Cobb EMC Class Action
$100 Million Electric Coop Case


PicturePallets of Checks for Our Clients
​In 2010 we initiated a class action lawsuit in Cobb County near Atlanta, Georgia against Cobb Electric Membership Cooperative ("Cobb EMC") asserting that it should have returned hundreds of millions of dollars to its member-owners but was kept by the electric coop instead.  

Cobb EMC was rife with internal corruption at the time and subject to an earlier stockholder's derivative action.  Its General Manager was indited multiple times for diverting these monies to himself, family members and cohorts.

Four years and thousands of hours of work later more than 77,000 people – our clients – who used Cobb EMC as their electric provider received checks because of the highly successful settlement we obtained early in 2014.  We worked with other local law firms and a national class action firm to achieve this result.

Our $100 million settlement was the largest class-action settlement in Cobb County’s history.  You might not have heard of Cobb County but when the Atlanta Braves play baseball next year in their new ballpark, it will be in Cobb County.

Critics of class actions – typically large corrupt corporations or their mouthpieces – often bemoan that class members receive little money or paper coupons in settlements.  Not so.  The Cobb EMC class action settlement payouts range from fewer than $100 to several million dollars.  The “first wave” of distributions totaling $24.6 million in checks are shown on the pallets at right.  More followed.

Recovering pallets of money for our clients who were wronged.  That pleases us.



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