IN RE AIR CRASH DISASTER AT FLORIDA EVERGLADES

No. 74-2074.

549 F.2d 1006 (1977)

In re AIR CRASH DISASTER AT FLORIDA EVERGLADES ON DECEMBER 29, 1972. Dorothy GORDON, etc., Joseph Mazur and Rose Mazur, Meryl Adrienne Rubin, etc., Plaintiffs, and Fuchsberg & Fuchsberg, their attorneys, Appellants, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., et al., Appellees. Steve N. MINGUZZI et al., Plaintiffs, and Landes, Wingate & Shamis, their attorneys, Appellants, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., et al., and "Plaintiffs' Committee," Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fuchsberg & Fuchsberg, Cyrus M. Diamond, New York City, for Gordon.

Landes, Wingate & Shamis, New York City, for Minguzzi.

Susan Goldman, Miami, Fla., for appellants.

Stanley Jay Bartel, Robert Orseck, Miami, Fla., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, GODBOLD and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This is a dispute over attorney fees awarded to a small group of plaintiffs' counsel who were designated by the district court as lead or liaison counsel for plaintiffs' side in a massive consolidated multidistrict case. The fees were awarded out of fees receivable by other plaintiffs' counsel.

The consolidated case embraced more than 150 claims for death and injuries arising from the crash of a large Eastern Airlines passenger plane...

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