CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. v. CPC ACQUISITION CO., INC.

No. 510, Docket 87-7679.

863 F.2d 251 (1988)

CLUETT, PEABODY & CO., INC., Plaintiff, v. CPC ACQUISITION COMPANY, INC., Paul A. Bilzerian, and Bilzerian and Brodovsky, Defendants. Paul A. BILZERIAN, Bilzerian and Brodovsky, a California Partnership, and CPC Acquisition Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiffs, v. CLUETT, PEABODY & CO., INC., a New York corporation, Gordon E. Allen, Robert E. Allen, Richard Q. Armstrong, Howard L. Clark, John C. Emery, Jr., E. Hervey Evans, Jr., Richard L. Gelb, Floyd D. Hall, Henry H. Henley, Jr., Robert J. McDonald, William T. Seawell, Phillip L. Smith, and John L. Weinberg, Defendants. Paul A. BILZERIAN, Bilzerian and Brodovsky, a California partnership, and CPC Acquisition Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Appellants, v. LATHAM & WATKINS, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Ingram, Tampa, Fla. (Max Wild, Wild & Wild, New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Job Taylor III (James E. Brandt, Jennifer L. Adams, Latham & Watkins, New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before MESKILL, KEARSE and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Paul A. Bilzerian, Bilzerian & Brodovsky and CPC Acquisition Company, Inc. (collectively "Bilzerian") appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Leonard B. Sand, Judge, entered in favor of appellee Lathan & Watkins in the amount of $354,569 for legal services rendered in connection with that law firm's representation of Bilzerian during his attempted takeover of...

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