Broughton v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court lacked authority under the FLSA to review settled attorney fees when liability and fees were separately negotiated
• finding the district court lacked authority “to take action on the settled attorney fees.”
• declining to say whether judicial approval of FLSA settlement agreements is “proper”
• “The parties were entitled to settle the attorney fee issue, and no law gave the district court authority to interfere with that unconditional right.”
• 29 U.S.C. § 216 does not require approval of settlement attorneys’ fees negotiated separately and without regard to Plaintiff’s FLSA claim
• “The parties were entitled to settle the attorney fee issue, and no law gave the district court authority to interfere with that unconditional right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).