Whether federal courts must implement a process that comports with due process to determine the fee and expense allocation of common-benefit funds in multidistrict litigation and other mass actions, to ensure that the decisions are transparent, legally valid, and fair and reasonable, particularly when they are based upon recommendations made by court-appointed fee committees composed of self-interested plaintiffs' lawyers with severe conflicts of interest because they stand to receive the fees and expenses at issue.

Whether federal courts must implement a process that comports with due process to determine the fee and expense allocation of common-benefit funds in multidistrict litigation and other mass actions