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McKINNEY-DROBNIS v. ORESHACK

No. 20-15539.

16 F.4th 594 (2021)

Baerbel McKINNEY-DROBNIS; Joseph B. Piccola; Camille Berlese, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Kurt ORESHACK, Objector-Appellant, v. Massage Envy, Franchising, LLC, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 20, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Trenton R. Kashima (argued), Sommers Schwartz P.C., San Diego, California; Jeffery R. Krinsk and John J. Nelson , Finkelstein & Krinsk LLP, San Diego, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. (argued), Kahn A. Scolnick , Martie P. Kutscher , and Daniel R. Adler , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Luanne Sacks , Cynthia A. Ricketts , Robert B. Bader , and Mike Scott , Sacks Ricketts & Case LLP, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

Concurrence by Judge Miller.

OPINION

This appeal concerns a district court's approval of a class action settlement that the parties reached before class certification. When a federal court considers whether to approve a settlement, we require the court to closely scrutinize the agreement for any evidence that class counsel's self-interest infected...

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