Despite Girsh v. Jepson, A District Court Need Not Always Determine the Best Potential Recovery in Order to Approve a Class Action Settlement

Halley v. Honeywell International, Inc., ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2017).  This was an environmental contamination class action involving lands in Jersey City, New Jersey.  After “five years of extensive fact discovery produced little evidence that liability could be established,” plaintiffs and defendant Honeywell agreed to settle the case for $10,017,000.  (There is another defendant, […]

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