Kevin Armstrong v. Board Of School Directors Of The City Of Milwaukee

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the essence of a settlement is compromise [,] an abandonment of the usual total-win versus total-loss philosophy of litigation in favor of a solution somewhere between the two extremes”
• noting that during a fairness hearing a court will “adduce all information necessary to enable [it] intelligently to rule on whether the proposed settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate” (quotations omitted)
• The purpose of the prenotification hearing is “to determine whether the proposed settlement is ‘within the range of possible approval.’”
• \Judges should not substitute their own judgment as to optimal settlement terms for the judgment of the litigants and their counsel.\
• “Judges should not substitute their own judgment as to optimal settlement terms for the judgment of the litigants and their counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).