common-fund
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-259 | Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-fees class-action common-fund lodestar representative-plaintiffs settlement-funds | "Since the decisions in Trustees v. Greenough, 105 U.S. 527 (1882), and Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Pettus, 113 U.S. 116 (1885), this Court has … |
| 22-634 | Richard Estle Carson, III v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | class-action class-actions common-fund incentive-award incentive-awards representative-plaintiff representative-plaintiffs rule-23 service-award supreme-court-precedent | Does Rule 23 abrogate this Court's holdings that payments in common-fund class actions to compensate representative plaintiffs for their personal serv… |
| 22-517 | Jenna Dickenson v. Charles T. Johnson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | attorney-fees common-fund equitable-fund johnson-factors judicial-discretion lodestar-method percentage-fee percentage-of-fund perdue-v-kenny | 1. Whether district courts may be required to use the inherently subjective and effectively unreviewable Johnson factors to determine common-fund fee … |
| 20-1150 | Shelby L. Haynes, et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | agreement common-fund common-fund-rule equitable-lien erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary non-contractual-claims plan-administrator retroactive-application retroactivity | 1. Can an ERISA plan fiduciary assert equitable lien by agreement claims against persons with which it has no agreement? 2. Can the undisclosed condi… | |
| 19-504 | Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough | This Court's longstanding precedent holds that representative plaintiffs whose litigation creates a "common fund" benefiting a larger class may recove… |
| 19-244 | Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees civil-procedure class-action common-fund common-fund-settlement fee-shifting lodestar lodestar-method securities securities-law | 1. Do this Court's decisions defining "a reasonable attorney's fee" in fee-shifting cases also constrain a district court's discretion in awarding "re… |
| 18-301 | Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Amici (4) | attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law | Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law. |