Owyhee Ditch Co. v. United States

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• recognizing that fees of 20-30% are generally awarded in the Sixth Circuit
• recognizing that fees of 20-30% are generally awarded in this Circuit
• finding that an attorney’s fee award of 17% of the settlement fund plus accrued interest is reasonable
• “Encouraging qualified counsel to bring inherently difficult and risky but beneficial class actions like this benefits society.”
• approving a lodestar multiplier of approximately 1.2% as “both reasonable and well within the range of multipliers awarded by courts in complex cases such as this.”
• “Encouraging qualified counsel to bring inherently difficult and risky but beneficial class actions like this benefits society.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).