1.   Bush, too, has loudly criticized the fee award and, earlier in the process, also went to court trying to block the lawyers from collecting.

2.   It will likely influence the size of fee awards in several remaining states, though in many states, the lawsuits did not involve as much legal work.

3.   One reason may be that they do not really care about the size of the total fee award.

4.   The fee award would probably not have been allowed in court, and it forced Warner into bankruptcy.

5.   The settlement established a separate fund for fees, so the fee awards will not affect the amounts paid to Holocaust victims and their families.

6.   The state Supreme Court refused to hear the case, so the defendants appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to review only the fee award.

7.   This will be divided by the lawyers according to their proportions of the overall fee award.