PARIS v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.


95 F.Supp. 232 (1951)

Philip PARIS, Miles A. Rogers, Herman Meyrich, Joseph H. Levy, Harry Schechter and Nathan Rosenbaum, suing on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated who may come in and contribute to the expenses of this suit, Plaintiffs, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO., Leon W. Berney, Cecil J. North and E. J. Nicholas, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

January 31, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goldwater & Flynn, New York City, for petitioners Boudin, Cohn & Glickstein, attorneys for plaintiffs in this action, by Monroe Goldwater, New York City.

Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, for Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., Cecil J. North and E. J. Nicholas, by Eugene Eisenmann, New York City.

Robert B. Seidman and I. Philip Sipser, New York City, for intervenors Sally Cartwright and English Strunsky, by Robert B. Seidman, New York City.

Neuburger, Shapiro, Rabinowitz & Boudin, New York City, for Distributive, Processing & Office Workers of America and U.O.P.W.A., by Leonard B. Boudin, New York City.

Herman E. Cooper, New York City, for Harry Dechtenberg, Michael Wagner and William Aisenberg, for themselves and on behalf of all others similarly situated.


McGOHEY, District Judge.

The basic determination of my opinion of November 27, 1950, S.D.N.Y., 94 F.Supp. 356, and the order of December 13, 1950, entered thereon, was the allowance of an additional counsel fee of $225,000 to the firm of Boudin, Cohn and Glickstein. It was recognized therein that the firm agreed to reduce that fee by the amount assigned by certain employees "in order to obviate any double burden upon those employees...

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