Examples of Plaintiff Class Representatives in a sentence
The court finds that using this formula to calculate service awards produces a sum that rewards Plaintiff Class Representatives for the number of hours they devoted to the case.
Thus, the court orders that each of the thirty-five (35) Plaintiff Class Representatives is awarded a service award for the time spent related to his or her representation of the Class.
Using the time rule formula above, the parties were married for 41.6 percent of the time Mr. Johnson was employed by the Air Force, and Ms. Zoric‘s half of that portion is 20.8 percent.
The amount of the service award for each Plaintiff Class Representative is calculated this way: (1) Plaintiff Class Representatives who spent 60 or more hours working on the case are awarded a $5,000 service award, and (2) Plaintiff Class Representatives who devoted fewer than 60 hours working on the case are awarded a service award that is calculated using the number of hours that the Plaintiff Class Representative worked on the case multiplied by the $79 hourly rate.
All the Plaintiff Class Representatives searched for and provided documents and other information in response to Defendants’ discovery requests, had their depositions taken (many traveled to Kansas City for their depositions), stayed informed of developments in the case, and reviewed and approved the Settlement Agreement.
The Motion requests an award of attorneys’ fees of one-third of the Settlement Amount, an award of Plaintiffs’ counsel’s expenses in the amount of $9,661,379.25, payment of$3,232,990.56 to the Notice Administrator for implementation of the Class notice plan, an award of service awards of $5,000 to each of the 35 Plaintiff Class Representatives, and approval of the proposed Plan of Allocation.
As explained below, the court grants the request for service awards to the Plaintiff Class Representatives and others, but it denies the request to award $5,000 to each of the 35 individuals.
If the court awards each Plaintiff Class Representative the requested $5,000 service award, it would grant a windfall to those Plaintiff Class Representatives who devoted a lower number of hours of work compared to other Plaintiff Class Representatives.
Co-Lead Counsel have requested that the court award $5,000 to each of the 35 Plaintiff Class Representatives as service awards for the time they spent and personal risk theyincurred representing the Class.
The relevant incarceration allegedly comprises three parts totaling five years and seven months by the time of the IJ's decision.