Shirley Temme v. Bemis Company, Incorporated

This appeal from an award of attorneys’ fees marks the end of protracted litigation between the parties. In 2008, the plaintiff class sued Bemis Company, Inc., for eliminating certain health-care benefits that they believed they were owed under a 1985 plant-closing agreement with Bemis’s predecessor in interest. We reversed the district court’s initial grant of summary judgment to the defendants, see Temme v. Bemis, 622 F.3d 730 (7th Cir.2010), and remanded. Just before the case went to trial, the parties settled. The plaintiffs then sought, and were awarded, attorneys’ fees in the amount of…