MILLS v. ELTRA CORP.

Nos. 80-2269, 80-2270.

663 F.2d 760 (1981)

Elmer E. MILLS and Louis Susman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ELTRA CORPORATION, a New York Corporation, the Electric Auto-Lite Company, and American Manufacturing Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. Appeal of Mozart G. RATNER, Attorney. Elmer E. MILLS and Louis Susman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ELTRA CORPORATION, a New York Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerold S. Solovy, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Mozart G. Ratner, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees/cross-appellant.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, PELL, Circuit Judge, and DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.


DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.

The only issue in the case at bar is the amount of the fee which a Washington lawyer seeks for work done in 1969. What Judge Aldisert foresaw in Lindy Bros. v. Am. Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., 540 F.2d 102, 116 (3rd Cir. 1976), has here come to pass: the fee proceedings have become the main event rather than the side show, assuming "massive...

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