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About Tyler W. Hudson
Lead counsel in high-stakes, complex commercial litigation matters nationwide, including financial fraud and antitrust class actions Served as Senior Counsel on the Financial Fraud Taskforce in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement Ty Hudson is a national plaintiff’s lawyer with extensive experience representing individuals, small businesses, and government entities in complex litigation, including class actions, RICO matters, antitrust cases, mass torts, whistleblower litigation and business litigation. He focuses on matters with significant financial exposure and complex legal issues.
Helping clients achieve meaningful recoveries in disputes against well-resourced corporate defendants. Ty has served in court-appointed leadership positions and played key roles in major class actions and MDLs nationwide, guiding strategic decisions and overseeing critical phases of litigation. His work focuses on disputes involving corporate misconduct, unfair and anticompetitive business practices, and large-scale fraud affecting diverse groups of plaintiffs and public institutions. Ty has tried complex cases in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels including JAMS, AAA, and FINRA, and has successfully argued before multiple appellate courts, including the Eighth and Tenth Circuits.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagstaff & Cartmell
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San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.
A federal jury in Hammond, Indiana found that Ethicon's Prolift transvaginal mesh was defectively designed and inadequately warned against, awarding Barbara and Anton Kaiser $35 million. A judge reduced the punitive damages, leaving a $20 million verdict that the Seventh Circuit affirmed in full in 2020.
Kathryn Gant died at the scene of a head-on crash on K-58 in Kansas on June 10, 2011, after a driver crossed the center line in a no-passing zone. Her husband sued the driver, the driver's parents and the family oil company. After a five-day bench trial in June 2015, a Coffey County judge found all of them liable and awarded $6,723,021. Under a pretrial agreement, none of the judgment could be collected from the defendants themselves.
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in designing platforms that harmed a young woman identified as K.G.M., who began watching YouTube at age 6 and joined Instagram at 9. On March 25, 2026, it awarded $3 million in compensatory damages, split 70 percent to Meta and 30 percent to YouTube, plus $3 million in punitive damages. It was the first bellwether trial in the coordinated California social media addiction cases.
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