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Third Circuit· 6/15/2010

Ehrheart v. Verizon Wireless

Citations

  • 609 F.3d 590
  • 76 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1518
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 12174
  • 2010 WL 2365867

How courts have described this case

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

  • stressing that “[t]he purpose of Rule 23(e) is to protect the unnamed members of the class,” and that a “district court acts as a fiduciary” for absent class members
  • noting that the presumption in favor of voluntary settlement agreements is “especially strong” in complex cases
  • holding that a settlement agreement executed by the named plaintiffs and defendant, but not yet court approved on a class-wide basis, still bound the present parties when the defendant moved the court to vacate its order granting preliminary approval of the settlement
  • describing the district court’s role and explaining that the court in that case “never considered whether to approve the settlement”
  • stating that, “[w]here . . . the parties have executed an agreement, a party cannot avoid its independent contractual obligations simply because a change in the law confers upon it a benefit” after the parties executed the agreement
  • stating that, “[w]here . . . the parties have executed an agreement, a party cannot avoid its independent contractual obligations simply because a change in the law confers upon it a benefit” after the parties executed the agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Smith, Fisher, Nygaard

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