STISSI v. INTERSTATE & OCEAN TR. CO. OF PHILADELPHIA

No. 823, Docket 86-7975.

814 F.2d 848 (1987)

Barbara STISSI, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ronald Stissi (Deceased), Judith Lax as Administratrix of the Estate of Ruth Calabro (Deceased), and Thomas J. Furey, Plaintiffs, v. INTERSTATE & OCEAN TRANSPORT CO. OF PHILADELPHIA, Interstate Towing Co. as owner of the Tug Delaware, Interstate Marine Transport Co. as owner of the Barge Interstate 36 and Sonat Marine Inc., formerly known as Interstate & Ocean Transport Co. as Bareboat Charter of the Barge Interstate 36 and Tug Delaware, Defendants. Alvin L. STERN, Esq., Appellant, v. Edward F. GERACE, Esq., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Stiles, New York City (Stephen X. Wright, and Nourse & Bowles, New York City, on the brief), for appellant Stern.

Roman Badiak, New York City (Edward F. Gerace, and Badiak & Will, New York City, on the brief), for appellee Gerace.

Before TIMBERS, VAN GRAAFEILAND and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Alvin L. Stern ("Stern"), an attorney, appeals from an order entered October 17, 1986 in the Eastern District of New York, Eugene H. Nickerson, District Judge, which divided unequally certain attorneys' fees between Stern and appellee Edward F. Gerace ("Gerace"), also an attorney.

The dispute over attorneys' fees leading to the instant appeal arose out of the joint representation...

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