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• holding that cede-back agreements are enforceable and should not be revealed to a jury
• \[T]he general policy of federal courts to promote settlement before trial is even stronger in the context of largescale class actions.\
• “Far from being unethical, cede back agreements make it easier to administer mandatory class actions for the assessment of punitive damages and encourage settlement in mass tort cases.”
• “The proportionate share approach is the law in the Ninth Circuit, has been adopted by the Supreme Court for use in maritime actions, and is the approach recommended by the American Law Institute”
• “It is uniformly held that absent exceptional circumstances, a jury deliberating on the amount of a damages award is not to consider where the funds that constitute that award will come from, or where they will end up.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).