Weiner v. Southeast Banking Corp.

This appeal arises from a class action settled against Southeast Banking Corporation. The district court approved the settlement and was faced with the issue of attomeys’s fees and costs. William A. Brandt, Jr., as administrator of a pension plan for former Southeast Bank employees, objected to the request for attorneys’s fees by class counsel. The district judge overruled the objection and approved attorneys’s fees of twenty-five percent of the settlement. Brandt attempts to appeal that ruling.

Brandt was not a named party. He never moved to intervene in the class action as administrator of…