WALITALO v. IACOCCA

Nos. 91-2835, 91-2870 and 91-2885.

968 F.2d 741 (1992)

Shirley WALITALO, Individually and Entities Similarly Situated, Walter A. Lytle, Jon Ketzler, Sharon Ketzler, Leon Steward, Carlan K. England, Charles M. Mangus, Peggy A. Mangus, William Randolph Warner, Karen G. Warner, Phyllis M. Boucher, Chephis J. Smith, M. Rhudene Smith, Maude Moore, Appellees, v. Lee IACOCCA, Chrysler Corporation, Poinsette Motors, Inc., Chrysler Credit Corporation, Houston-Taylor Motors Corporation, Inc., Jim Limbaugh Chrysler, Gallatin Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge, Inc., Swift Dodge, Inc., Does # 1-20, Karp Motors, Inc., Moothart Chrysler Plymouth, Inc., Does # 1-50, Mitch Crawford's Holiday Motors Corporation, Crown-Dodge, Inc., Appellants, v. L.H. CARTER, doing business as L.H. Carter Company, Jan Shout, Mark Shout, Mary Hicks, Tommy Hicks, Diana Deatherage, Kenneth Deatherage, Susan Loffredo, Dorothy Wilson, Gorden Wilson, Arnold W. Parnes, Appellees, v. CHRYSLER CORPORATION, Appellant. Barbara N. CHRZANOWSKI, Appellees, Paul Q. Monier, Jane E. Monier, Plaintiffs, James M. Hume, Appellees, v. RDS MANAGEMENT, d/b/a Shuman Motor Sales, Inc., Thompson Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., National Bank of Detroit, Chrysler Corporation, Chrysler Credit Corporation, Rollings Chrysler, Jones Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., Appellants, v. Jack THREADGILL, Plaintiff, v. CHRYSLER CORPORATION, Appellant. Peggy JOHNSON, Appellee, v. OVERSEAS MILITARY SALES CORPORATION; Chrysler Corporation, Appellants. Ken DUCKETT, Harold E. Horton, Craig Adler, Harvey J. Axelrod, Charles E. Bernd, Alex Bidniuk, R.J. Boggie, Roy Brown, Robert Dworkin, Cecil Ferguson, John W. Garner, Morton Gilbert, Frances Greene, A.B. Hayes, Ross Jones, Frank Lafazia, G.B. Lindsey, Kevin Messier, Marvin James Okray, Bobby Owen, Minnie Owen, James Shubnell, George Schrader, Mary Stevens, Dallas Thompson, Don F. Walker, Walter Gronek, Jr., Appellees, v. CHRYSLER CORPORATION, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Newman, St. Louis, Mo., argued, for appellants.

R. Stephen Griffis, Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

Before WOLLMAN and MAGILL, Circuit Judges, and LONGSTAFF, District Judge.


MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Chrysler Corporation and other defendants appeal the district court's award of attorneys' fees to two attorneys. The district court appointed these attorneys to manage pretrial discovery on behalf of plaintiffs who had opted out of an odometer fraud class action and filed individual lawsuits.1 When the discovery was nearly complete, the district court awarded the attorneys fees totalling 40% of the amount recovered...

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