Legal Opinion
In Re Fleet/Norstar Securities Litigation
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided July 31, 1996No. CA 90-0173BPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRANCIS J. BOYLE, Senior District Judge.
I. Introduction
Pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 23.1 and 23(e), the Court’s task is to approve or reject a settlement agreement reached by the litigants in both a class action and a derivative action suit. The settlement agreement additionally requests the Court to award appropriate attorney fees for Plaintiffs’ counsel. Therefore, part and parcel with the settlement decision, the Court must fashion attorney fees for both the class action and derivative suit.
II. Background
In 1990, the plaintiffs Joseph Weitzman and Stanford Wynn brought a securities…
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