In class actions, the law firm that represents the lead plaintiff controls the litigation and earns most of the fees.
The Minnesota board, which controls the litigation on behalf of investors, said it lost $249 million from the purchase of Time Warner by America Online in 2001.
Additional whistle-blower cases followed, and the Justice Department ultimately agreed to intervene and assume control of the litigation in a number of those cases.
The MC Mojave case is disturbing because many of the elderly homeowners felt as if they had no control over the litigation handled by their lawyers.
In reality — notwithstanding the intent of the P.S.L.R.A. — Milberg Weiss was in control of the litigation, and now Lerach had his chance to persuade Judge Harmon that he was the best lawyer for the job.
Our reversal should in no way be interpreted as a criticism of the prodigious effort of the trial justice to control this litigation and keep all parties and counsel focused on the legal issues.
At 9.Tri-County had not retained any ability to monitor or control the patent's litigation activity.
[T]he rewards of the Solicitor General's job come from his being able to survey the entirety of federal government litigation throughout the United States and to control the flow of that litigation up through the lower federal courts to the Supreme Court.
Third, is a mood about the controversy that suggests that here, as in the cases involving multipurpose federal dams, federal control of navigable streams controls this litigation.
