United States Second Circuit

The district court's approval the largest class action settlement in the history of antitrust law is affirmed over defendants' challenge to the adequacy of class representation, the adequacy of notice, the fairness of settlement, and the reasonableness of attorneys' fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2005
• Published 01/04/2005

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge., Before:  CABRANES and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard J. Archer, Archer & Hanson, Occidental, CA (James A. Kopcke, Golden Kopcke, LLP, San Francisco, CA, on the brief) for Objectors-Appellants Reyn's Pasta Bella, LLC, Jeffrey Ledon DeWeese, M.D., Barry Leonard d/b/a Critter Fritters, and Hat-In-The-Ring, Inc. d/b/a Eddie Rickenbacker's., Stanley M. Grossman (H. Adam Prussin, John Balestriere, Murielle J. Steven Walsh, on the brief), Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Howard Langer, John Grogan, Langer and Grogan, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, on the brief;  Joseph Goldberg, Sara Berger, Alexandra Freedman Smith, Zachary Ives, Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander Goldberg & Cline, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, on the brief) for Objector-Appellant Nu-City Publications, Inc., John Rasmussen (Dale W. Robinson, on the brief), Johnson, Rasmussen, Robinson & Allen, P.L.C., Mesa, AZ for Objectors-Appellants Armenta's Mexican Food, Inc. and Lupita Llamas Martinez d/b/a Del Yaqui Restaurant.


• For Appellees:
  
• N. Albert Bacharach, Jr., Gainesville, FL for Objectors-Appellants-Cross-Appellees Leonardo's Pizza By the Slice, Inc. and 710 Corp. Inc., M. Laurence Popofsky (Stephen V. Bomse, Marie L. Fiala, Peggy J. Williams, Russell P. Cohen, on the brief), Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA (Philip H. Curtis, Robert C. Mason, Arnold & Porter LLP, New York, NY, on the brief;  Kevin J. Arquit, Joseph F. Tringali, Mariya S. Treisman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY, on the brief;  Kenneth A. Gallo, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, on the brief;  Keila D. Ravelo, Clifford Chance U.S. LLP, New York, N.Y. on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees., Lloyd Constantine (Robert L. Begleiter, Matthew L. Cantor, Stacey Anne Mahoney, Michelle A. Peters, Amy N. Roth, Gordon Schnell, Jonathan Shaman, Jeffrey I. Shinder, on the brief), Constantine & Partners, New York, N.Y. for Class Counsel-Appellees-Cross-Appellants and for Class Plaintiffs-Appellees., Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Law Offices of Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Berkeley, CA on submission for Objector-Cross-Appellee Roman Buholzer d/b/a The Continental Garden Restaurant.