In re La Plata

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the percentage method “allows courts to award fees from the fund in a manner that rewards counsel for success and penalizes it for failure”
• approving plan of 17 Document no. 122-2 at 17-19. 20 allocation accounting for class members’ relative damages depending on timing of stock sale
• “With no adversary to challenge the Plaintiffs’ proposal, the Court has been left to fend for itself in crafting an approach for assessing reasonableness.”
• “it is sufficient to conclude that when the lodestar cross-check is applied to the fee award in this case, it raises no reasonableness concerns”
• “[T]he competitive fee structures uniformly reflect a downward scaling as the settlement fund increases.”
• market-based information used to set a reasonable fee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).