SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has approved a $158 million fee award for the attorneys who extracted over $500 million in settlements from electronics firms in one of the region’s massive price-fixing cases.

The award for class counsel in the cathode ray tube antitrust litigation, led by Mario Alioto of Trump, Alioto, Trump & Prescott, may be a whopping sum. But it’s not as much as the attorneys had requested. They had sought a third of the $576.7 million settlement fund, or roughly $192.2 million.

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