City of Danville v. Franklin

How courts have described this case

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

• stating the “trend towards adoption of a percentage of the fund method in [common fund] cases.”
• “enhancing the lodestar with a separate multiplier can serve as a means to account for the risk an attorney assumes in undertaking a ease, the quality of the attorney’s work product, and the benefit achieved”
• upholding district judge decision to apply multiplier of two, despite class counsel requesting a multiplier of three, because settlement only resulted in class members recovering 21% of their initial investment
• “When awarding attorney’s fees in a class action, a court must make sure that counsel is fairly compensated for the amount of work done as well as for the results achieved.”
• post-Dague case stating that, in the Sixth Circuit, contingency risk is one factor that is \the focus of a district court’s analysis when determining whether to utilize a multiplier\
• citations and quotations omitted in this and following citations except as otherwise noted

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