Commonwealth v. Thomas' Admr.

How courts have described this case

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• approving incentive award of $5,000 for each of six named plaintiffs who reviewed draft pleadings and motions, searched for and produced relevant documents, reviewed filings, and communicated regularly with class counsel
• approving a fee award with a multiplier of five and finding in a review of 96 ERISA cases that “the implied multiplier ranged from less than one to eight times the lodestar’
• awarding 25% of settlement value as attorney fees in an ERISA class action
• “The lodestar cross-check works best as a sanity check to ensure that an otherwise reasonable percentage fee would not lead to a windfall.”
• If a case was “demonstrably exceptional in any of these areas, then an increase or decrease of the baseline percentage would be warranted.”
• The “‘percentage of the fund’ method, [] is the trend in this Circuit,” citing Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Visa U.S.A., Inc., 396 F.3d 96, 121 (2d Cir. 2005

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).