· 12/17/2003
In Re Independent Energy Holdings PLC Securities Litigation
Citations
- 302 F. Supp. 2d 180
- 2003 WL 22990086
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- approving notice where information required by PSLRA was found partly in individual notice and partly in summary notice
- awarding attorney’s expenses incurred that are “incidental and necessary to the representation” of the clients
- due process satisfied by mailing approximately 30,000 notice packets to all reasonably identifiable persons who purchased securities during class period and by publishing summary notice in The New York Times
- “Attorneys may be compensated for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred and customarily charged to their clients.”
- “One of the concerns Congress had in enacting the PSLRA was to ensure that class members received sufficient, comprehensible notice so they could eval- uate proposed settlements intelligently.”
- “Attorneys may be compensated for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred and customarily charged to their clients, as long as they were incidental and necessary to the representation of those clients.”
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Judges: Scheindlin
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