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SEIGAL v. MERRICK

Nos. 239, 240, Dockets 79-7420, 79-7444.

619 F.2d 160 (1980)

David SEIGAL and Ethel Seigal, Plaintiffs, v. David MERRICK, William T. Gossett, William R. Hearst, Jr., F. Warren Hellman, H. Blackmer Johnson, John H. Johnson, William C. Keefe, Ralph F. Lewis, Malcolm A. MacIntyre, Harry J. McIntyre, John T. Pollock, Dennis C. Stanfill, Gordon Stulberg, Gerald Trautman, and John L. Vogelstein, Defendants, Twentieth Century Fox-Film Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, and Norman Annenberg, Esq., Appellee-Cross-Appellant. Harry GEHLER, Plaintiff, v. William R. HEARST, Jr., H. Blackmer Johnson, John H. Johnson, William C. Keefe, Malcolm A. MacIntyre, David Merrick, Harry J. McIntyre, John T. Pollock, Ralph Lewis, Dennis C. Stanfill, Gordon Stulberg, Gerald A. Trautman, William T. Gossett, Defendants, Twentieth Century Fox-Film Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, and Norman Annenberg, Esq., Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Freund, New York City (Rosenman, Colin, Freund, Lewis & Cohen, New York City, Joseph Zuckerman, and Marc S. Dreier, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant-cross-appellee Twentieth Century Fox-Film Corporation.

Norman Annenberg, New York City (Griffith G. deNoyelles, Jr., New York City, of counsel), for appellee-cross-appellant Norman Annenberg, Esq.

Before MOORE, FRIENDLY and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

Twentieth Century Fox-Film Corporation (Fox) appeals and Norman Annenberg, an attorney, cross-appeals from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York awarding fees to Annenberg and Colman Abbe, an expert employed by him, for their services in successfully objecting to an improvident settlement of derivative actions by stockholders of Fox. The district court, endeavoring to follow the teaching of City of Detroit...

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