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COM. OF PUERTO RICO v. HECKLER

No. 83-2136.

745 F.2d 709 (1984)

COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health & Human Services, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 16, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Bartnoff, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Peter A. Barnes, Washington, D.C., with whom Philip A. Lacovara, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before MIKVA, GINSBURG and STARR, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

This is a case about a $12,500 legal fee awarded by the district court under the "common fund doctrine." Puerto Rico v. Heckler, Civ. No. 82-2695 (D.D.C. May 18 & Aug. 26, 1983). It is "a second major litigation," see Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 437, 103 S.Ct. 1933, 1941, 76 L.Ed. 2d 40 (1983), a hard-fought contest following...

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