Leiser v. Meisner

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “[c]lass action settlements simply will not occur if the parties cannot set definitive limits on defendants’ liability”
• holding that even claims that did not exist can be released provided they arise out of “the identical factual predicate as the settled conduct”
• stating that a class “[n]otice is adequate if it may be understood by the average class member” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that in setting the amount of attorneys’ fees, “settlement payments to approximately five million absent class members are at stake”
• holding that decision to grant or reject objector’s motion for discovery regarding fair- ness of settlement depended on “whether or not the District Court had before it sufficient facts intelligently to approve the settlement offer” (citation omitted)
• stating that “the absence of substantial opposition is indicative of class approval” when only eighteen of five-million class members objected

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).