DUTCHAK v. CENTRAL STATES PENSION FUND

Nos. 89-3351, 89-3352, 89-3353, 89-3461, 89-3462, 89-3644, 89-3645, 89-3656, 89-3785 and 89-3786.

932 F.2d 591 (1991)

David DUTCHAK, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CENTRAL STATES, SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST AREAS PENSION FUND, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, Lawrence Walner & Associates, Ltd., et al., Edmund W. Kitch, Cross-Appellants. Elizabeth M. DOLE, Secretary of Labor, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CENTRAL STATES, SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST AREAS PENSION FUND, Defendant-Appellant. Chester J. SULLIVAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CENTRAL STATES, SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST AREAS PENSION FUND, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, Lawrence Walner & Associates, Ltd., et al., Edmund W. Kitch, Coin, Crowley & Nord, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 19, 1991.

As Amended April 24, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Barack, Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum & Perlman, Lawrence Walner, Walner & Associates, Chicago, Ill., George E. Faber, Faber & Buehler, West Dundee, Ill., Harry B. Bainbridge, Flossmoor, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees in Nos. 89-3351, 89-3352, 89-3353, 89-3785 and 89-3786 and plaintiffs in Nos. 89-3461, 89-3644 and 89-3645.

Peter J. Barack, Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum & Perlman, Lawrence Walner, Walner & Associates, Chicago, Ill., Harry B. Bainbridge, Flossmoor, Ill., for plaintiffs in No. 89-3462.

Peter J. Barack, Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschman & Perlman, Lawrence Walner, Walner & Associates, Anita M. D'Arcy, Julia A. Bruckner, Alice Carroll-Tracy, Coghlan, Joyce, Kukankos, Urbut & D'Arcy, Chicago, Ill., George E. Faber, Faber & Buehler, West Dundee, Ill., Harry B. Bainbridge, Flossmoor, Ill., for plaintiffs in No. 89-3656.

William J. Nellis, Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, Rosemont, Ill., James L. Coghlan, Anita M. D'Arcy, Julia A. Bruckner, Coghlan, Joyce, Kukankos, Urbut & D'Arcy, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant in Nos. 89-3351, 89-3352, 89-3353, and defendant-appellee in Nos. 89-3461, 89-3462, 89-3644, 89-3656.

Lionel G. Gross, Jeffrey P. DeJong, Brian C. Witter, Altheimer & Gray, Ellis Sostrin, Chicago, Ill., for appellants in Nos. 89-3461, 89-3462.

Lionel G. Gross, Jeffrey P. DeJong, Brian C. Witter, Altheimer & Gray, Ellis Sostrin, Lawrence Walner, Walner & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for appellant Lawrence Walner & Associates in No. 89-3462.

Phil C. Neal, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, Ill., for appellant Edmund W. Kitch in Nos. 89-3644, 89-3645.

Wilbert F. Crowley, Jr., Cowen, Crowley & Nord, Chicago, Ill., for appellant Coin, Crowley & Nord in No. 89-3656.

William J. Nellis, Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, Rosemont, Ill., James L. Coghlan, Julia A. Bruckner, Coghlan, Joyce, Kukankos, Urbut & D'Arcy, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee in No. 89-3645.

William J. Nellis, Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, Rosemont, Ill., James L. Coghlan, Anita M. D'Arcy, Julia A. Bruckner, Alice Carroll-Tracy, Coghlan, Joyce, Kukankos, Urbut & D'Arcy, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant in Nos. 89-3785, 89-3786.

Before CUDAHY, RIPPLE and MANION, Circuit Judges.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

The Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund (Fund) has been involved in a nearly eighteen-year battle over its benefits policies and management. In what may be the final leg of this litigation, the Fund now appeals the district court's award of just over five million dollars in attorney's fees and expenses under the terms of a settlement approved by the district court on November 10, 1987. The settlement outlines the factors...

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