Albert Zucker Sarah Mandelbaum, Weiss & Yourman Stull, Stull & Brody v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation Ray Irani Howard Collins, Walter Kaufmann

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a trial court still has jurisdiction to entertain motions for attorney's fees after the underlying action has become moot
• noting that attorneys' fees “are but an ancillary matter over which the district court retains equitable jurisdiction even when the underlying case is moot”
• noting that attorneys' fees \are but an ancillary matter over which the district court retains equitable jurisdiction even when the underlying case is moot\
• noting that attorneys’ fees “are but an ancillary matter over which the district court retains equi- table jurisdiction even when the underlying case is moot”
• explaining that the court’s duty to ensure that attorneys’ fees awarded in a class action are reasonable “exists independently of any objection” from a member of the class
• \No Article III case or controversy is needed with regard to attorney's fees . . . because they are but an ancillary matter over which the district court retains equitable jurisdiction even when the underlying case is moot. \ (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).