settlement-approval

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-731 Yellow Turtle Design, LLC, et al. v. Sonya Salkin Slott, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-distribution chapter-7-liquidation creditor-priority settlement-approval statutory-interpretation In Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 580 U.S. 451, 457, 137 S.Ct. 973, 979, 197 L.Ed.2d 398 (2017), this Court held, "The [Bankruptcy] Code makes clea…
25-5464 Jaime A. Diaz ONeill v. Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP attorneys-fees class-action fairness-hearing notice-requirements rule-23 settlement-approval Question not identified.
22-566 William Yeatman v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (2) class-action class-certification class-counsel cy-pres due-process first-amendment rule-23 settlement-approval student-loan third-party-beneficiary Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as 'fair, reasonable, and adequate' under Rule 23(e) or certify a class under Rule…
22-554 Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as 'fair, reasonable, and adequate' under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial…
20-492 Charles D. Gonzalez, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived adequate-representation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadequate-representation intra-class-conflict release rule-23 settlement settlement-approval Whether the district court and the court of appeals improperly applied obsolete standards for approval of settlement class actions under prior caselaw…