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· 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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