Steve Morrissey is a trial lawyer who has devoted over twenty years to helping clients win results in complex cases in state and federal courts throughout the country. Landmark matters include:
- FSG Services LLC. v. Flutter Entertainment. Secured a favorable award for Flutter Entertainment when an arbitrator nearly doubled the exercise price its opponent, Fox Corporation, sought for its option to acquire 18.6% of Flutter’s, FanDuel Group. This arbitration resulted from FOX’s assertion that it should be entitled to the same price Flutter paid for its share of FanDuel two years before the arbitration took place.
- Flint Water Crisis Litigation. Member of the Executive Committee and chairs the Expert Committee in complex litigation stemming from the contamination of the Flint, Michigan water distribution system. To date, Morrissey’s team has secured court-approved settlements valued at $626 million.
- Lamar v. Beats Electronics, Dr. Dre. and Jimmy Iovine. Co-lead counsel in a breach of contract case for Steven Lamar and his company, Jibe Audio, involving a claim for royalties on the iconic Beats headphones products. Morrissey won a jury verdict that confirmed Lamar’s right to royalties on Beats headphones and would result in a judgment worth more than $50 million for past damages, interest, ongoing royalties, and attorneys’ fees. The case settled for a confidential amount.
- Casey v. Simmons. Won a $178.7 million jury verdict, which included $145 million in punitive damages in a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty case on behalf of the three entrepreneurs who owned an environmental clean-up company. The case settled for a confidential amount while on appeal.
- Masimo v. Tyco. Won a $420 million jury verdict (after trebling) in an antitrust case based on Tyco Healthcare Group’s monopolization of the market for pulse oximetry products. After the trial court upheld the liability findings and ordered a new trial on damages, Morrissey and his team then won again, with the trial court entering a judgment for $43.5 million in damages (after trebling), plus attorneys’ fees.
- Flo & Eddie v. Sirius XM. Co-lead counsel for 1970’s music group, The Turtles, and a class of owners of pre-1972 recordings in a certified class action lawsuit against Sirius XM that settled less than 48 hours before the jury trial was scheduled to begin. Sirius XM agreed to pay at least $25.5 million and royalties under a 10-year license that is valued up to $62 million as compensation for publicly performing without a license Pre-1972 sound recordings.
- Ferrick v. Spotify. Secured a $43.45 million cash fund and an agreement to pay future royalties estimated to be worth more than $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with Spotify brought on behalf of music copyright owners who alleged that Spotify made music available online without securing mechanical rights from the tracks’ composers.
Updated Sep 2023
