Behrens v. Wometco Enterprises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting plaintiffs’ counsel is entitled to reimbursement from the class fund for reasonable expenses
• “A settlement can be satisfying even if it amounts to a hundredth or even a thousandth of a single percent of the potential recovery.”
• “The second and third considerations of the Bennett test are easily combined. A court first determines the range of recovery by resolving various damages issues. The court then determines where in this range of possible recovery do fair, adequate, and reasonable settlements lie.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).