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How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[o]ur review of the district court’s decision to approve a class action settlement is extremely limited”
• stating that “[o]ur review of the district court’s decision to approve a class action settlement is extremely limited”
• stating that “the decision to approve or reject a settlement is committed to the sound discretion of the trial judge because he is ‘exposed to the litigants, and their strategies, positions and proof’”
• stating that “the decision to approve or reject a settlement is committed to the sound discretion of the trial judge because he is ‘exposed to the litigants, and their strategies, positions and proof’”
• “[I]t is the settlement taken as a whole, rather than the individual component parts, that must be examined for overall fairness.”
• “[I]t is the settlement taken as a whole, rather than the individual component parts, that must be examined for overall fairness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).