What Every Judge Should Know about a Rule 23 Settlement (But Probably Isn't Told)

The real negotiations are often not between class counsel and defendants' attorneys but between class counsel and the insurer. The nexus must be to the claim made. [...]in Dennis, the Ninth Circuit held that a future distribution of Kellogg's cereal products to charities that feed the indigent was unrelated to claims that Kellogg misled consumers when it claimed that Frosted Mini-Wheats would improve children's attentiveness in school by 20 percent.