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· 2/18/2014

Americana Art China Company, I v. Foxfire Printing and Packaging

Citations

  • 743 F.3d 243
  • 2014 WL 594357
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 2930

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing a court’s discretion to use either the lodestar method or percentage method in awarding attorneys’ fees and costs for a class action
  • noting that “the choice of methods [of determining attorneys’ fees] is discretionary” (citing Harman v. Lyphomed, Inc., 945 F.2d 969, 974 (7th Cir. 1991))
  • “[T]he choice of methods is discretionary … in our circuit, it is legally correct for a district court to choose either.”
  • allowing either the lodestar or percentage method
  • allowing either the lodestar or percentage method

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Manion, Kanne, Hamilton

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