Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• examining though ultimately rejecting the charge that collusion precluded the certification of the settlement class
• rejecting argument that even if non-settling defendants lacked standing to challenge merits of settlement, could have standing to attack the procedures followed in approving the settlement
• settlement discussions began after six months of discovery; action pending for three years, court was fully briefed
• \[T]he Court finds that a conditional class should be certified for the purpose of considering the proposed settlements.\
• \[A blanket rule against settlement classes] may render it virtually impossible for the parties to compromise class issues and reach a proposed class settlement before a class certification . . . .\
• court referred to discovery in companion cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).