As Amended on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc May 18, 1983.
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from a judgment of civil contempt against attorney Robert De Meo brings up to us a question of first impression: whether a federal district judge has the power to compel, on his own initiative, a criminal defendant's attorney to return part of the legal fee that the attorney collected from the defendant, on the ground that the fee was exorbitant.
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