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• noting that the district court bears the responsibility of scrutinizing attorney fee requests
• recognizing a common fund because the “award to the class and the agreement on attorney fees represent a package deal” even though the attorney’s fees were technically “paid by the defendants separate and apart from the settlement funds”
• “The award to the class and the agreement on attorney fees represent a package deal. Even if the fees are paid directly to the attorneys, those fees are still best viewed as an aspect of the class’ recovery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).