KRAUSE v. RHODES

Nos. 79-3115, 79-3202.

640 F.2d 214 (1981)

Arthur KRAUSE et al., Plaintiffs, v. James A. RHODES, et al., Defendants, Sindell, Lowe & Guidubaldi, A Partnership et al., Appellants, Attorney General of Ohio, Intervenor, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Lowe, Sindell, Lowe & Guidubaldi, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellants.

Sanford Jay Rosen, Rosen & Remcho, San Francisco, Cal., Nelson G. Karl, Cleveland, Ohio, David E. Engdahl, Denver, Colo., Rees Davis, Mansfield, Ohio, William J. Brown, Atty. Gen., Steven R. Keller, Columbus, Ohio, Robert Blakemore, Blakemore, Rosen & Norris, Akron, Ohio, Charles E. Brown, Crabbe, Brown, Jones, Potts & Schmidt, N. Victor Goodman and Stephen Lewis, Topper, Alloway, Goodman, DeLeone & Duffey, Columbus, Ohio, Eugene Selker, Cleveland, Ohio, Charles Shanklin, George, Greek, King, McMahon & McConnaughey, Columbus, Ohio, Bruce J. Ennis, New York, John P. Adams, Bd. of Church & Soc. United Methodist Church, Washington, D. C., Bruce T. Wick, Westlake, Ohio, Joseph Kelner, Kelner, Kelner, Stelljes & Glotzer, New York City, Fred Mandel, Mandel & Goldsmith, Cleveland, Ohio, Alfonse J. Damico, Syracuse, N. Y., John Lawson, Stephen T. Parisi, Paul S. Lefkowitz, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellee.

Burton Fulton, Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton, Norman & Mollison, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant and intervenor.

Stephen V. Bomse, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees beneficiaries.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, LIVELY, Circuit Judge and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


EDWARDS, Chief Judge.

Steven Sindell, the original counsel for 12 of the plaintiffs in the 1970 Kent State shooting cases,1 appeals from orders entered by Judge William K. Thomas approving a settlement of this lengthy and bitterly fought litigation.

Sindell contends that his 331/3% contingency fee contracts for representation of these plaintiffs invalidate the limitation and allocation...

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