United States ex rel. Priore v. Fay

How courts have described this case

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

• noting concerns “that a class representative who is closely associated with the class attorney would allow settlement on terms less favorable to the interests of absent class members”
• finding plaintiff with close relationship to class counsel was not an adequate representative given the large pool of potential class representatives
• finding an \appearance of impropriety\ where interim class counsel failed to disclose additional counsel and undisclosed counsel was a long-time neighbor and client of class representative
• finding an “appearance of impropriety” where interim class counsel failed to disclose additional counsel and undisclosed counsel was a long-time neighbor and client of class representative
• proposed 27 securities class representative inadequate and conflicted where it had long served as stockbroker to class counsel
• “[C]ourts are concerned that ‘when a class representative is closely associated with class counsel, he or she may permit a settlement less favorable to the interests of absent class members.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).