representative-plaintiffs

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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…
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…