W. R. Roach & Co. v. G. & J. Lo Bue Bros.

How courts have described this case

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• listing “an assessment of the likely complexity, length and expense of the litigation” as factors that determine the reasonableness of a fee award
• stating that the court's focus in determin- ing whether to accept a proposed settlement should be \upon the general principles governing approval of class action settlements\ and that the court \must not decide unsettled legal questions\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “the relative strength of plaintiffs' case on the merits as compared to what the defendants offer by way of settlement, Is the most important consideration”
• the “ ‘essence of settlement is compromise,’ ” and a settlement “will not be rejected solely because it does not provide a complete victory to the plaintiffs”
• “The district court relied upon affidavits outlining the qualifications of class counsel and perhaps more importantly upon its own observations over the course of the litigation as to the quality of the representation provided to the class.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).