Sulejman Nicaj v. Shoe Carnival Incorporated

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• holding that “the ratio that is relevant to assessing the reasonableness of the attorneys’ fee that the parties agreed to is the ratio of (1) the fee to (2) the fee plus what the class members received.”
• concluding that the term “coupon” is “interchangeable with ‘voucher’”
• explaining that “the secondary market in coupons is bound to be thin” where the coupons are not all that flexible
• reasoning that district courts must “bear[] in mind that the higher the fees the less compensation will be received by the class members”
• noting that district court, in reviewing merits of proposed “coupon settlement” of consumer class action, could have appointed expert to address consumer response to coupons
• explaining that settlement providing coupons to class members was “prudent” given company’s financial problems

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).