This class action settlement involving AirTouch Cellular and Cellco Partnership, which do business as the more commonly known Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest in American history. The lead plaintiff , Marcy Campbell, and the other plaintiff s, filed the original complaint in July 2001 in California Superior Court, San Diego County, before Judge William C. Pate, claiming that Verizon improperly and inadequately disclosed billing, sales and marketing practices. The case went to mediation before Judge J. Lawrence Irving, United States District Court for the Southern District of California (Retired). Judge Irving is currently Special Counsel at Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, a well-known plaintiff’s class-action firm....