Legal Opinion
Petruzzi's, Inc. v. Darling-Delaware Co., Inc.
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 18, 1997No. Civil Action 86-0386PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
VANASKIE, District Judge.
As the concluding aspect of a class action settlement that yielded a dollar recovery to class members of approximately $400,000, counsel for the plaintiff class (hereinafter referred to as “class counsel”) requests attorneys’ fees in the amount of $4.7 million. Class counsel justifies this request by asserting that the full benefit of the two settlement agreements to the class was $9.4 million, a sum that class counsel claims represents the settling defendants’ exposure under agreements that essentially accorded to class members 10% of their , documented…
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