United States Ninth Circuit

STATON v. BOEING CO., 99-36086

The district court acted within its discretion in certifying an employment discrimination case as a class action under FRCP 23(a). Parties to a class action may not include in a settlement agreement an amount of attorneys' fees measured as a percentage of an actual or putative common fund created for the benefit of the class.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2001
• Submitted 05/09/2001
• Decided 04/29/2003
• Published 04/29/2003

Judges

• Before:  LAY,TROTT and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan B. Epstein,Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for the Plaintiffs-Objectors-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce A. Harrell and Oscar E. Desper III, Harrell, Desper, Connell & Roesch, Seattle, Washington, and Charles K. Wiggins, Bainbridge, WA, for the Plaintiffs-Appellees., C. Geoffrey Weirich and Maureen E. O'Neill, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Atlanta, GA, for the Defendants-Appellees.