United States Seventh Circuit

Approval of a settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit against a package shipper alleging violation of federal common law through the shipper's practice of assigning default weights to unspecified packages is vacated and remanded after class member challenges where the lower court did not adequately evaluate whether the settlement was fair to class members.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/28/2005
• Decided 09/11/2006
• Published 09/11/2006

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John J. Pentz, Maynard, MA, Kearney D. Hutsler, III (argued), Birmingham, AL, for Appellant, Joel M. Shapiro., Robert J. Stein, III, Stein Bogot, Chicago, IL, Kearney D. Hutsler, III, Birmingham, AL, for Appellant, Kearney Dee Hutsler., W. Jeffrey Muskopf, Freeark, Harvey, Mendillo. Dennis, Wuller & Cain, Belleville, IL, Edward W. Cochran (argued), Shaker Heights, OH, for Appellants, W. Andrew Hoffman, Pritchard, McCall & Jones, Professional Asset Strategies, Inc., Asset Strategies, Inc. and N. Albert Bacharach, Jr., Steven A. Katz (argued), Korein Tillery, St. Louis, MO, for Appellant, Korein Tillery.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Katz (argued), Douglas R. Sprong, Korein Tillery, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Jeffrey P. Lennard, Mark L. Hanover (argued), Leah R. Bruno, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.