Montalvo v. Chang

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “[t]he genesis of the ‘common fund’ as a source of attorneys’ fees may be traced to century-old landmark decisions of the [United States] Supreme Court”
• the policy as well as the letter of the law is a guide to decision
• overruled on other grounds by Chun v. Bd. of Trustees of the Employees' Ret. Sys., 92 Hawaii 432, 992 P.2d 127 (2000)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).