Lazy Oil Co. v. Witco Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• approving settlement for 5.35% of estimated damages, overruling objections, and collecting cases approving “class settlements involving far smaller percentage recoveries”
• “We have an inherent obligation to ensure that we only decide those cases for which there is a proper ground for appellate jurisdiction.”
• “[W]e have an inherent obligation to ensure that we only decide those cases for which there is a proper ground for appellate jurisdiction”
• “We are, of course, mindful of the fact that the authority of Rule 2 cannot be utilized to expand the jurisdiction of the Court.” (citing Torres, 487 U.S. at 315)
• addressing order approving class settlement but not an allocation plan
• addressing order approving class settlement but not an allocation plan

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).