Boyles v. Petrucelli

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• noting that parties’ examination of the factual and legal bases of the disputed claims through completion of discovery “strongly militates in favor of the Court’s approval of the settlement”
• noting that it is “well settled law that a proposed settlement may be acceptable even though it amounts to only a fraction of the potential recovery”
• noting that it is “well settled law that a proposed settlement may be acceptable even though it amounts to only a fraction of the potential recovery”
• noting that parties’ examination of the factual and legal bases of the disputed claims through completion of discovery “strongly militates in favor of the Court’s approval of the settlement”
• \Avoiding such a trial and the subsequent appeals in this complex case strongly militates in favor of settlement rather than further protracted and uncertain litigation.\
• considering counsel’s degree of competence and 3 counsel’s opinion of the proposed settlement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).