Mashburn v. National Healthcare, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that early settlements are to be encouraged, and accordingly, only some reasonable amount of discovery is required to determine the fairness of the settlement
• holding that early settlements are to be encouraged, and accordingly, only some reasonable amount of discovery is required to determine the fairness of the settlement
• “If plaintiffs’ counsel did not believe these factors all pointed substantially in favor of this settlement as presently structured, this Court is certain that they would not have signed their names to the settlement agreement.”
• “If plaintiffs’ counsel did not believe that these factors all pointed substantially in favor of this settlement as presently structured, this Court is certain that they would not have signed their names to the settlement agreement”
• “That is, Class Counsel developed ample information and performed extensive analyses from which to determine the probability of their success on the merits, the possible range of recovery, and the likely expense and duration of the litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).