Legal Opinion
Rosenbaum v. MacAllister
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 15, 1995No. 93-1498PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we are asked to determine whether the district court abused its discretion in awarding plaintiffs’ counsel $2,500,000 attorney’s fees and $100,000 expenses, to be paid by US West, Inc., based on the settlement reached in a combined class action and derivative suit against US West and certain of its officers and directors. Drake G. Russell, an unnamed class member who is also a US West shareholder, made written and oral objections in the district court, not to the settlement itself, but to the amount of attorney’s fees sought in the settlement agreement and…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Hall v. ColeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Boeing Co. v. Van GemertSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- In Re General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation. Jack French, Robert M. West, Charles E. Merritt, Gary Blades, Dawn and Tracey Best, Gary and Jackie Barnes, Betty Marteny, John and Mary Southands, Edmund Berning, Dale W. Plummer, Edmund and Anneta Casey, John and Connie Yonki, Carl and Kathryn Corona, Dallas and Patricia Nelson, Mynard and Mildred Duncan, Kirby L. Stegman, Dewayne Anderson, Morris and Barbara Betzold, in No. 94-1064. Rudolph Jenkins, William D. Cunningham, Mather Johnson, Forrest Charles Ginn, Buren William Jones and Martin D. Parkman, in No. 94-1194. Parish of Jefferson, in No. 94-1195. The State of New York, in No. 94-1198. Elton Wilson, Individually, and Frank I. Owen, Individually and on Behalf of the Residents of the State of Alabama, in No. 94-1202. City of New York, in No. 94-1203. Betty Youngs, Barbara Phillips, Margaret Engel, Larry Swope, Robbin Maxwell and Center for Auto Safety, in No. 94-1207. Betty Youngs, Barbara Phillips, Margaret Engel, Larry Swope, Robbin Maxwell and Center for Auto Safety, in No. 94-1208. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, in No. 94-1219Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by45 opinions
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- Albert Zucker Sarah Mandelbaum, Weiss & Yourman Stull, Stull & Brody v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation Ray Irani Howard Collins, Walter KaufmannCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
- Powers v. EichenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Savoie v. Merchants BankCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
- Connolly v. Harris Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002
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