In Re General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation. Jack French, Robert M. West, Charles E. Merritt, Gary Blades, Dawn and Tracey Best, Gary and Jackie Barnes, Betty Marteny, John and Mary Southands, Edmund Berning, Dale W. Plummer, Edmund and Anneta Casey, John a

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• holding that \the district court on remand needs to make some reasonable assessment of the settlement's value\
• holding that Rule 23(a) requirements must be satisfied as if class were to litigate its claims
• holding that an independent agreement between class counsel and the defendants regarding attorneys’ fees must be reviewed along with the class action settlement
• holding that findings regarding the fairness of the settlement cannot serve as “a surrogate for” certification findings because “the settlement approval inquiry is far different from the certification inquiry”
• concluding that the need for class discovery by the defendants “into the background of the six million vehicles owned by class members” pointed towards settlement
• holding that “substantial concerns [about a settlement] are created by the dramatic divergence of the settlement terms from the relief originally sought”

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