Louisiana ex rel. Pittman v. Conerly

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the district court abused its discretion by ordering a cy pres distribution where neither side contended that “each class member’s recovery would be so small as to make an individual distribution economically impracticable”
• holding that when “we find an abuse of discretion in our review of the allocation of funds derived from class settlements, the scheme adopted by the District Court will not be upheld”
• holding that in determining counsel fees, trial court erred in calculating percentage of the fund on the basis of claims made against the fund rather than on the entire fund created by efforts of counsel
• holding that in determining counsel fees, trial court erred in calculating percentage of the fund on the basis of claims made against the fund rather than on the entire fund created by efforts of counsel
• holding that the district court abused its discretion by ordering a cy pres distribution where neither side contended that “each class member’s recovery would be so small as to make an individual distribution economically impracticable”
• holding that “[t]he entire Fund, and not some portion thereof, is created through the efforts of counsel at the instigation of the entire class” and thus fees should be allocated based on “total funds made available, whether claimed or not”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).