In Re Literary Works in Electronic Databases

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “an intense, protracted, adversarial mediation,” with “highly respected and capable” mediators, “does not compensate for the absence of independent representation”
• advising that each “subclass representative . . . represent plaintiffs’ interests with respect to only that category of claim”
• discussing circumstances under which the creation of subclasses may be necessary to remedy fundamental conflicts of interest within a class
• describing seven subclasses as \surely beyond the point at which 'reclassification with separate counsel' must end\
• analyzing objectors’ arguments that a settlement violated Rule 23(a)(4)’s adequacy of representation requirement because of conflicts of interests between those class members with lucrative claims and those with lower-value claims
• discussing circumstances under which the creation of subclasses may be necessary to remedy fundamental conflicts of interest within a class

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).