RAMEY v. CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, INC.

Nos. 74-1110 to 74-1116.

508 F.2d 1188 (1974)

Jean Whitehouse RAMEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, INC., and American Financial Corporation, Defendants-Appellants. Angiolina MORELLI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, INC., and American Financial Corporation, Defendants-Appellants. Albert HARRIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, INC., and American Financial Corporation, Defendants-Appellants. Jean W. RAMEY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The E. W. SCRIPPS COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants. Cecil F. SCHOEN, a.k.a. Cecile F. Schoen, Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. The CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellants (3 cases).

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

December 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Lloyd, Jr., Frost & Jacobs, John L. Muething, Louis F. Gilligan, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellants in Nos. 74-1110 to 74-1113.

Jerome Goldman, Douglas G. Cole, C. R. Beirne, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellee in No. 74-1110.

Arnold Morelli, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellee in No. 74-1111.

Irving Harris, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellee in No. 74-1112.

James W. Henglebrok, Cincinnati, Ohio, Richard F. Stevens, H. Stephen Madsen, Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellants in Nos. 74-1114, 74-1115 and appellees in No. 74-1116.

C. R. Beirne, Cincinnati, Ohio for appellees in No. 74-1114.

Ambrose H. Lindhorst, Gene Mesh, Cincinnati, Ohio, David C. Bayne, Professor of Law University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, for appellees in No. 74-1113.

Ambrose H. Lindhorst, Gene Mesh, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellees in No. 74-1115 and appellants in No. 74-1116.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS and McCREE, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

These are appeals from an order granting attorneys' fees in four stockholder derivative suits that were dismissed on grounds of mootness after trial but before adjudication. The District Judge's order awarded a total of $865,000 in attorneys' fees and $35,115.96 in expenses to be paid to plaintiffs' attorneys in four cases by defendants Enquirer1 and Scripps,2 with a contribution of ...

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