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COUNTY OF SUFFOLK v. LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO.

Nos. 87-CV-646 (JBW), 87-CV-2065 (JBW).

710 F.Supp. 1428 (1989)

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, a municipal corporation, Robert Alcorn, Christopher S. George, Fred Harrison, Peter Maniscalco, William P. Quinn, and Custom Extruders, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY, Stone & Webster Engineering Company, Charles R. Pierce, Wilfred O. Uhl, Charles J. Davis, and Andrew W. Wofford, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America ex rel. W. Gordon DICK and John P. Daly, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY, Charles R. Pierce, Wilfred O. Uhl, Charles J. Davis, and Andrew W. Wofford, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

As Amended April 14, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Betts & Nash by Bernard Persky, Kenneth F. McCallion, Gregory W. O'Neill, James W. Johnson and Lawrence P. Kolker, New York City, E. Thomas Boyle, County Atty. of Suffolk County, Hauppauge, N.Y., for plaintiff Suffolk County.

Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard by Judith P. Vladeck, Karen Honeycutt and Julian Birnbaum, New York City, for Individual Ratepayer plaintiffs.

Bower & Gardner by James D. Harmon, Jr. and Michael Eng, New York City, for United States.

Farrell, Fritz, Caemmerer, Cleary, Barnosky & Armentano by George J. Farrell and Delores Fredrich, Uniondale, N.Y., Edward T. O'Brien, County Atty. of Nassau County, Mineola, N.Y., for intervenor County of Nassau.

Peter L. Zimroth, Corp. Counsel of City of New York (Peter Lehner, of counsel), New York City, for intervenor City of New York.

Reilly, Like & Schneider by Irving Like, Babylon, N.Y., Flower & Plotka by Edward Flower, Bay Shore, N.Y., for plaintiff Custom Extruders, Inc. and intervenors Business Ratepayer plaintiffs.

Marilyn A. Marlek, Bethpage, N.Y., Cahill, Gordon & Reindel by Charles A. Gilman, New York City, for intervenor Grumman Corp.

Leibowitz & Peterson by Ira Leibowitz, Garden City, N.Y., Parker, Chapin, Flatteau & Kimpl by Gary Neil Sazar, Jericho, N.Y., for intervenor Long Island Ass'n.

Lewis & Greer by Lou Lewis, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for intervenor Shoreham-Wading River Central School Dist.

Shea & Gould by Michael Lesch, Ronald H. Alenstein and John G. Nicolich, New York City, for individual defendants.

Susan E. Silverman, Hicksville, N.Y., for defendant Long Island Lighting Co.

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon by Laurence V. Senn, Jr., New York City, for defendant Stone & Webster Engineering.

Robert Abrams, New York State Atty. General's Office, New York City.

AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

FAIRNESS OF CLASS SETTLEMENT

WEINSTEIN, District Judge:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  I. INTRODUCTION

 II. HEARINGS

III. FAIRNESS DETERMINATION

     A. SETTLEMENT TERMS


   B. FAIRNESS FACTORS

      1. The Complexity, Expense and Probable Duration of the Litigation.
      2. The Reaction of the Class to the Settlement.
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