City of New York v. Richardson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the MDL court lacked the power to order holdbacks from the recoveries of parties not before it
• 5% lien against individual settlements in mass disaster imposed to compensate for benefits obtained from lead counsel’s efforts
• district court had authority to direct appointment of committee of lead counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).