U.S. v. PALMER

No. 91-1387.

956 F.2d 3 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Ann M. PALMER, et al., Defendants, Appellees, Philip F. Mulvey, Jr., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander H. Pratt, Jr., with whom Harvey Weiner and Peabody & Arnold, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Philip P. Mulvey, Jr.

Peter R. Tritsch, Dallas, Tex., with whom George S. Chefitz, Newton, Mass., was on brief, for Ann M. Palmer and Peter R. Tritsch.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal is hopefully the occasion for interment of an agonizingly long dispute over an attorney's fee between two counsel for a plaintiff with whom the United States reached a settlement. The present dispute is not even over the fee, which has been awarded in its entirety to appellee Tritsch, but over the form of the judgment. Appellant Mulvey argues that it should have taken the form of a...

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