Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation v. Board of Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that Ortiz “counseled against adventurous application of Rule 23(b)(1)(B)” and stressed “a limited construction” (quotation marks removed)
• rejecting a proposed “limited fund” settlement when “[t]he class members in this case suffered a wide variety of injuries, ranging from property damage to personal injury and death, and no method is specified for how these different claimants will be treated vis-a-vis each other”
• agreement provided for appointment of special master to dispose of any remaining funds without any guidelines
• agreement provided for appointment of special master to dispose of any remaining funds without any guidelines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).