Class Action to Recover Cellular Phone Fee - $48 million recovery for a statewide Illinois class of businesses and individuals who paid a municipal infrastructure maintenance fee on their cellular phone bills. Through litigation, the Illinois Supreme Court declared the fee to be unconstitutional, and we obtained refunds for cell phone customers from the Illinois municipalities that imposed the fee. In addition to having a plaintiff’s class of cell phone customers certified by the court, we also convinced the court to certify a defendant’s class of Illinois municipalities, which is notable as it is very difficult and uncommon for a court to certify a defendant’s class. Certification of a defendant’s class allowed us to recover refunds from all Illinois municipalities in a single lawsuit, rather than having to sue each municipality separately. We included in the class recovery $5.1 million in donations to hospitals for the care and treatment of indigent patients in need of emergency medical treatment in rural areas of the state.