Legal Opinion
Fager v. CenturyLink Communications, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 29, 2016No. 15-2109PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
James Ziegler appeals the district court’s final approval of a class-action settlement agreement to resolve landowner claims against telecommunications companies for their installation of fiber-optic cable underneath railroad rights-of-way. He contends that class members did not receive adequate notice of the settlement and the settlement is unfair. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In the 1980s, telecommunications companies sought to create a nationwide network of fiber-optic cable. See In re WorldCom, Inc., 347 B.R. 123, 132 (Bankr.…
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