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Sarah Litt v. Western Stone & Metal Corp.

MOTION for Settlement Approval for Final Settlement Purposes

21 Cited authorities

  1. Eisen v. Carlisle Jacquelin

    417 U.S. 156 (1974)   Cited 3,783 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that individual notice to class members identifiable through reasonable efforts is mandatory in (b) actions

  2. Lynn's Food Stores, Inc. v. United States

    679 F.2d 1350 (11th Cir. 1982)   Cited 3,949 times   24 Legal Analyses
    Holding that settlement of an FLSA claim must be approved by either a court or the Department of Labor

  3. Rodriguez v. W. Publ'g Corp.

    563 F.3d 948 (9th Cir. 2009)   Cited 1,098 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that settlement was substantively fair and reasonable to the class

  4. Churchill Village v. General Electric

    361 F.3d 566 (9th Cir. 2004)   Cited 763 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that approval of a settlement that received 45 objections and 500 opt-outs out of 90,000 class members was proper

  5. National Rural Telecommunications Co-op. v. Directv, Inc.

    221 F.R.D. 523 (C.D. Cal. 2004)   Cited 569 times
    Applying to Rule 23 settlement

  6. Class Plaintiffs v. City of Seattle

    955 F.2d 1268 (9th Cir. 1992)   Cited 782 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the relevant indenture agreement allowed the trustee to "bring tort and fraud claims on behalf of the bondholders"

  7. Syncor v. Cardinal

    516 F.3d 1095 (9th Cir. 2008)   Cited 330 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Finding that, where parties “reached an enforceable settlement agreement subject to court approval,” defendant could not withdraw from agreement even before court approval

  8. Linney v. Cellular Alaska Partnership

    151 F.3d 1234 (9th Cir. 1998)   Cited 417 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a settlement was fundamentally fair when it created a $6 million settlement fund for the plaintiff class without releasing their claims and provided extensive injunctive relief

  9. In re Pacific Enterprises Securities Litigation

    47 F.3d 373 (9th Cir. 1995)   Cited 285 times
    Holding fees justified "because of the complexity of the issues and the risks"

  10. Barbosa v. Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.

    297 F.R.D. 431 (E.D. Cal. 2013)   Cited 165 times
    Finding that the factor pertaining to the risk of future litigation weighed in favor of approval where "there remained significant procedural hurdles for the putative class to confront, including certification" and "there were significant risks in continued litigation and no guarantee of recovery"

  11. Rule 23 - Class Actions

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 23   Cited 35,874 times   1249 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"

  12. Rule 30 - Depositions by Oral Examination

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 30   Cited 16,728 times   134 Legal Analyses
    Upholding a district court's decision not to consider the plaintiff's deposition errata sheets in opposition to a motion for summary judgment when they were untimely