Cotter v. Lyft, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
July 2021
most recently cited
2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Hanlon v. Chrysler Corp. · Reyn's Pasta Bella, LLC v. Visa USA, Inc. · Class · Torrisi v. Tucson Electric Power Co. · In re Prudential Securities Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“not a case where a company has deliberately evaded a clear legal obligation to provide legally required pay and benefits to its employees”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“lax review makes little practical sense, from anyone’s standpoint. If the district court, by taking a quick look rather than a careful one, misses a serious flaw in the settlement, the parties and the court will waste a great deal of money and time notifying class members of the agreement, only to see it rejected in the end, requiring the parties to start over. The same is true if the district court does identify a potentially serious flaw at the preliminary stage but waits until final approval to conclude that it’s fatal. What’s worse, if a court waits until the final approval stage to thoroughly assess the fairness of the agreement, momentum could have a way of slanting the inquiry, in a manner that deprives the class members of the court protection that Rule 23 demands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“negligently failed to learn about its obligations under the wage and hour laws”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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