BRISEÑO v. HENDERSON

No. 19-56297.

998 F.3d 1014 (2021)

Robert BRISEÑO; Christi Toomer; Kelly McFadden; Janeth Ruiz; Brenda Krein; Alexis Justak; Leonora Ulitsky; Anne Cowan; Julie Palmer; Patty Boyer; Necla Musat; Pauline Michael; Rona Johnston; Cheri Shafstall; Jill Crouch; Erika Heins; Maureen Towey; Michele Andrade; Anita Willman; Dee Hopper-Kercheval; Lil Marie-Birr, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. M. Todd HENDERSON, Objector-Appellant, v. ConAgra Foods, Inc., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 1, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore H. Frank (argued) and Melissa A. Holyoak , Center for Class Action Fairness, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for Objector-Appellant.

Samuel Issacharoff (argued), New York, New York; Robert Klonoff , Portland, Oregon; Ariana J. Tadler , A.J. de Bartolomeo , and Brian R. Morrison , Tadler Law LLP, New York, New York; Adam J. Levitt and Amy E. Keller , DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC, Chicago, Illinois; David Azar , Milberg Phillips Grossman LLP, Irvine, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Angela M. Spivey (argued), Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, for Defendant-Appellee.

Mark Brnovich , Attorney General; Oramel H. Skinner , Solicitor General; Kate B. Sawyer , Assistant Solicitor General; Keena Patel , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Phoenix, Arizona; Steve Marshall , Kevin G. Clarkson , Leslie Rutledge , Lawrence G. Wasden , Curtis T. Hill Jr. , Daniel Cameron , Jeff Landry , Eric Schmitt , Dave Yost , Mike Hunter , Alan Wilson , and Ken Paxton , Attorneys General; as and for Amici Curiae Attorneys General of Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

Before: John B. Owens and Kenneth K. Lee, Circuit Judges, and David A. Ezra, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

We can perhaps sum up this case as "How to Lose a Class Action Settlement in 10 Ways." The parties crammed into their settlement agreement a bevy of questionable provisions that reeks of collusion at the expense of the class members: Class counsel will receive seven times more money than the class members; an...

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