How that fee came about is something of a mystery, as well as the subject of claims made by seven state legislators in an attempt to intervene in the case.
To understand the stable nature of subscription fee stream, we can look at how subscribers and fee per subscriber have trended over the course of the past few years.
The judge also asked the law firms to explain how their proposed fee compares to what an individual client would pay on a contingency basis in a similar case.