CITY OF HARTFORD v. CHASE

No. 1394, Docket 91-7074.

942 F.2d 130 (1991)

CITY OF HARTFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David T. CHASE; Chase Family Partnership; One Corporate Center, Inc.; Chase Family Limited Partnership No. 3; One Commercial Plaza, Inc.; David T. Chase Enterprises, Inc.; Chase Enterprises, Inc.; Olympia & York Hartford, Inc.; O & Y (U.S.) Development Company, L.P.; L.N. Bofox Real Estate Development Corp.; O & Y (U.S.) Development General Partner Corp.; Cavanagh, Fritz & Company; Interstate Management Corporation; Interstate Management Associates; and Peat Marwick Main & Co., Defendants-Appellants, William J. Keveney, III and the Hartford Courant, Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 14, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Howard, Hartford, Conn. (Shipman & Goodwin, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant City of Hartford.

Stuart Bear, Bridgeport, Conn. (Jacob D. Zeldes, Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, of counsel), for defendants-appellants David T. Chase; Chase Family Partnership, One Corporate Center, Inc., Chase Family Ltd. Partnership No. 3, One Commercial Plaza, Inc., David T. Chase Enterprises, Inc., Chase Enterprises, Inc., Cavanagh, Fritz & Co., Interstate Management Corp., Interstate Management Associates.

(Stanley D. Robinson, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hayes & Handler, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants Olympia & York Hartford, Inc., O & Y (U.S.) Development Co., L.P., L.N. Bofox Real Estate Development Corp., O & Y (U.S.) Development General Partner Corp.

(Eric W. Wiechmann, Cummings & Lockwood, of counsel, Hartford, Conn.), for defendant-appellant Peat Marwick Main & Co.

Ralph G. Elliot, Hartford, Conn. (Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn, of counsel), for intervenors-appellees William J. Keveney, III and The Hartford Courant.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, and PRATT and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Chief Judge:

The City of Hartford and David T. Chase, et al., appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Peter C. Dorsey, Judge, interpreting, and — as will be discussed below — modifying, a prior order he had issued formalizing the settlement of a lawsuit between appellants. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the judgment of the district court and remand for further proceedings.<...

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