William Weinberger v. Great Northern Nekoosa Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting the requesting party’s “duty to lay a foundation for a[n evidentiary] hearing” on a motion for attorney’s fees
• rejecting an appellant's assignment of error when the appellant sought relief below only by means of an undocketed letter
• discussing oversight of attorney-fee agreements as necessary to prevent class-harming conflicts of interest between the plaintiff class and class counsel
• inferring collusion from a “clear sailing” provi- sion when the attorney’s fees were to be paid on top of the settlement fund as this is counterintuitive defense behavior
• “In applying for judicial approval of a fee award, it is the [movant’s] burden to furnish the evidence required, not the court’s burden to seek it out.”
• “In general, a clear sailing agreement is one where the party paying the fee agrees not to contest the amount to be awarded by the fee-settling court so long as the award falls beneath a negotiated ceiling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).