United States Ninth Circuit

No abuse of discretion in awarding attorney's fees of 28% of a settlement fund to class counsel, in an action between defendant and its freelance workers, where court applied the lodestar method as a cross check of the percentage method in its calculation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/20/2002
• Decided 05/15/2002
• Published 05/15/2002

Judges

• Before REINHARDT and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence W. Schonbrun,Law Offices of Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Berkeley, CA, for the plaintiffs-objectors-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles K. Wiggins, Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Stephen K. Strong, David F. Stobaugh, Stephen K. Festor and Brian J. Waid, Bendich, Stobaugh & Strong, P.C., Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Carol S. Arnold, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellee.