Three major manufacturers of zippers, snaps, buttons and hooks have settled for $17.6 million with a class of thousands of plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation case alleging price-fixing.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted final approval of the deal, including the $5.85 million in attorney fees requested by the lead counsel for the plaintiffs to come out of the settlement fund.

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