Seinfeld v. Coker

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that $2,600 per hour would overcompensate counsel where “no heroic efforts characterized counsel’s performance”
• holding that a measurement of the results achieved is most important when addressing a request for fees from the common fund
• explaining that awarding fees to “produc[e] appropriate incentives” is “necessarily fact-specific and case-specific”
• emphasizing the importance of incentivizing efficient litigation and settlement, and litigation that induces monitoring behavior, while avoiding windfalls

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).