Last year a California class action suit resulted in a settlement where each class member received a $10 gift card from the defendant store. The settlement called for the plaintiff’s lawyer to get $175,000 125,000 (sorry -typo)
The judge who approved the settlement didn’t like it, and ordered the lawyer to also take payment in $10 gift cards from the store.
Boing Boing [1]refers to a post on the Lowering the Bar [2]blog that says that judge has been disciplined for that by the state Commission on Judicial Performance.
No word on the fate of the lawyer’s gift cards.