IN RE CERTAIN SPECIAL COUNSEL TO BOSTON & ME. CORP.

No. 84-1248.

737 F.2d 115 (1984)

In re CERTAIN SPECIAL COUNSEL TO the BOSTON & MAINE CORPORATION, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Green, Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green, Manchester, N.H., Edward I. Masterman, Cargill, Masterman & Culbert, Boston, Mass., Ralph J. Moore, Jr., Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C., John J.C. Herlihy, Herlihy and O'Brien, Edward F. McLaughlin, Herrick & Smith, Boston, Mass., Charles H. White, Jr., and Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Washington, D.C., on Petition for Mandamus.

Robert W. Meserve, Benjamin H. Lacy, and Hill & Barlow, Boston, Mass., on Memorandum of Robert W. Meserve and Benjamin H. Lacy, Trustees in Reorganization of the Boston and Maine Corporation, in response to Petition for Mandamus.

Joseph J. Hurley, and Nutter, McClennen & Fish, Boston, Mass., on Memorandum for respondents in response to petitioners' reply.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioners, six attorneys who performed legal services during the reorganization of the Boston & Maine (B & M) Corporation,1 have filed a petition for writ of mandamus seeking a prompt disposition of their outstanding fee petitions. Their chief complaint is that the reorganization judge, in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, has been dilatory in ruling on the question of their fees.

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