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Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Brown

  • 488 U.S. 822
  • 57 U.S.L.W. 3230
  • 109 S. Ct. 66
  • 102 L. Ed. 2d 43
  • 1988 U.S. LEXIS 3867
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Oct 3, 1988
Status
Published
Cited by
187 cases
Authority
More cited than 98.9%

holding, in reliance on Blum, that award of attorneys' fees on percentage basis in common fund case not abuse of discretion, but requiring that fee award be reasonable and that district court articulate specific reasons to facilitate appellate review

How later courts described this case

  • holding, in reliance on Blum, that award of attorneys' fees on percentage basis in common fund case not abuse of discretion, but requiring that fee award be reasonable and that district court articulate specific reasons to facilitate appellate review
  • holding that award of attorneys' fees based upon percentage of fund is not per se an abuse of discretion.
  • noting that the Johnson factors are relevant to the percentage that should be awarded
  • denying recovery for clean-up costs under Missouri law

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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