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METRO. PITTSBURGH CRUSADE FOR VOTERS v. PITTSBURGH

Civ. A. No. 86-173.

686 F.Supp. 97 (1988)

METROPOLITAN PITTSBURGH CRUSADE FOR VOTERS, and unincorporated membership organization, Thomas E. Smith, Florence Bridges, Roy A. Holmes, Reginald D. Plato, Isaac J. Saxon, Claude J. Jones, Isaac Wade, Ronald L. Suber, and Marshall Ross, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, a municipal corporation; Richard Caliguiri, Mayor, Eugene Depasquale, Ben Woods, Mark Pollock, Sophie Masloff, Michell Madoff, Richard Givens, Stephen Grabowski, Jack Wagner, James O'Malley, members of the Pittsburgh City Council; Allegheny County Board of Elections; Tom Foerster, Pete Flaherty, Barbara Hafer, Commissioners: Allegheny County Democratic Committee: Edward Stephens, Chairman; Allegheny County Department of Elections; James Scanlon, Director, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

May 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Henderson, Pittsburgh, Pa., William L. Robinson, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Robert L. Byer, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Republican City Committee and Robert Binnie.

Allan J. Opsitnick, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Allegheny County Bd. of Elections, Tom Foerster, Pete Flaherty, Barbara Hafer, Com'rs and Allegheny County Bd. of Elections, James Scanlon, Director.

Robert B. Smith, Ass't City Solicitor, Pittsburgh, Pa., Vincent R. Fontana, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, New York City, for City of Pittsburgh, etc.

John F. Cambest, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Allegheny County Democratic Committee.

OPINION

ZIEGLER, District Judge.

Pending before the court is the question whether the decision of class counsel, with the apparent support of an overwhelming number of class members, to forego additional litigation and support the apportionment plan of the Pittsburgh Apportionment Commission, as an interim settlement of the underlying claims, is fair, adequate and reasonable. We hold that the proposed class action resolution is substantively reasonable compared...

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