Kent Eubank v. Pella Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a district judge must “estimate the likely outcome of a trial” in order to measure the adequacy of a proposed settlement
• noting that \the judge rightly made incentive awards to the class representatives who had opposed the settlement as well as to those who had approved it\
• lamenting “eight largely wasted years” of litigation and how much more still needed to be done in part due to the need to replace the lead plaintiffs
• rejecting proposed class settlement in part because of the contingent nature of the relief provided to the class
• “Class representatives are ... fiduciaries of the class members, and fiduciaries are not allowed to have conflicts of interest without the informed consent of their beneficiaries”
• “If he was lying and actually thinks the case worthless how could he have been an effective class representative even if he had no conflict of interest?”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).