Garfield Trust Co. v. Director, Div. of Taxation

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring that all plaintiffs have an opportunity to consider the settlement and formulate a response, and suggesting that two weeks would be the minimum period between notice and the reasonableness hearing
• “A consent decree ... should be strictly construed to preserve the bargained for position of the parties.”
• \A consent decree . . . should be strictly construed to preserve the bargained for position of the parties.\
• court is under mandatory duty to consider fairness to those affected, adequacy of settlement to the class, and public interest
• “The court should defer to the judgment of experienced counsel who has competently evaluated the strength of his proofs.”
• “The court should defer to the judgment of experienced counsel who has competently evaluated the strength of his proofs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).