Legal Opinion
Vought v. Bank of America, N.A.
District Court, C.D. Illinois
Decided October 4, 2012No. Case No. 10-CV-2052PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MICHAEL P. McCUSKEY, District Judge.
Judge Posner recently wrote for the Seventh Circuit:
It is a curiosity of class action litigation that often there is greater ferocity in combat among the class lawyers over the allocation of attorneys’ fees than there is between the class lawyers and the defendants. The contest among the lawyers is a zero-sum game. But the contest between them and the defendants is a positive-sum game because the class lawyers are naturally very in*1074terested in the fee component of any settlement, while the defendants care only about the size of the settlement,…
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