GODFROY v. UNITED STATES

Appeal No. 71.

467 F.2d 909 (1972)

Ira Sylvester GODFROY et al., etc. v. The UNITED STATES. The MIAMI TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA et al., etc. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Bell, attorney of record for David L. Kiley and Estate of Walter H. Maloney, Sr. (Appeal No. 6-71); Walter H. Maloney, Jr., and Kiley, Osborn, Kiley & Harker, Marion, Ind., of counsel.

Louis L. Rochmes, Washington, D. C., attorney of record (Appeal No. 8-71); Edwin Rothschild and Sonnenschein, Levinson, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

W. Braxton Miller, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen., Kent Frizzell, for the United States.

Glen A. Wilkinson, Washington, D. C., filed a brief for Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on his own behalf as amicus curiae.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, LARAMORE and DURFEE, Senior Judges, and DAVIS, SKELTON and NICHOLS, Judges.


On Appeal From the Indian Claims Commission

(Motion for Rehearing)

LARAMORE, Senior Judge.

The appeals involved herein are from a decision by the Indian Claims Commission allowing and apportioning attorneys' fees based on recoveries by the Miami Tribe of Indians. Pursuant to an opinion of April 11, 1972, 198 Ct.Cl. 1, 458 F.2d 93, this court reversed in part the decision of the Indian Claims Commission and remanded...

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