Opinion ID: 2711586
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: class administration fees;

Text: MOTION TO STAY APPELLATE JUDGMENT In both the original fee petition and the second supplemental fee petition, Strawn requests an award of fees 29 The general judgment awarded Strawn $412.50 in compensatory damages plus $197.22 in interest, for a total compensatory damages award of $609.72. Each class member was also awarded $840.92 as their share of the punitive damages award; Strawn received $20,840.92, which included the incentive fee. 30 That is, in fact, essentially what had happened in the Court of Appeals before this court heard the matter on review. Because the Court of Appeals had reduced the punitive damages award substantially, Farmers likely would have been designated the prevailing party and been awarded costs that would have wiped out Strawn’s recovery. The other class members, however, still would have recovered all actual damages, albeit with a lesser award of punitive damages. 246 Strawn v. Farmers Ins. Co. incurred in administering the class post-trial, together with expected class administration fees in the future. As Strawn admits, the Court of Appeals denied those fees, directing that they should be sought from the trial court. See Strawn, 233 Or App at 410 (so noting). No party challenged the propriety of that ruling on review, and we decline to consider the merits of that conclusion. See ORAP 9.20(2) (generally, court will consider on review only those questions “that the petition or response claims were erroneously decided by” the Court of Appeals). Strawn “simply request[s] that this Court identify clearly whether or not the class administration fees and costs    are included in its award,    so that there will be no dispute over whether [Strawn has] the right to include those fees and costs in a supplemental submission to the trial court.” We deny the request for class administration fees here, without prejudice to Strawn seeking an award of those fees by appropriate application to the trial court. One final motion requires disposition. Farmers filed a motion to stay issuance of the appellate judgment while it sought a petition for certiorari from the United States Supreme Court. While this matter was pending, the Supreme Court denied the petition. Accordingly, we dismiss the motion for stay as moot.