Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• district court should award attorneys' fees from a common fund according to whether attorneys' services benefited the fund
• “It is well established that an award of attorneys’ fees from a common fund depends on whether the attorneys’ specific services benefited [sic] the fund— whether they tended to create, increase, protect or preserve the fund.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It is well established that an award of attorneys’ fees from a common fund depends on whether the attorneys’ specific services benefited the fund— whether they tended to create, increase, protect or preserve the fund.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).