In re TWO APPEALS ARISING OUT OF the SAN JUAN DUPONT PLAZA HOTEL FIRE LITIGATION.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Heard March 2, 1993.
Decided June 4, 1993.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Paul K. Connolly, Jr., with whom Damian R. LaPlaca, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Ralph W. Dau, Peter B. Ackerman, Jeffrey W. Kilduff, O'Melveny & Myers, Raul E. Gonzalez-Diaz, A.J. Bennazar-Zequeira, Gonzalez & Bennazar, Andrew K. Epting, Jr., G. Trenholm Walker, Wise & Cole, Homer L. Marlow, William G. Liston, Marlow, Shofi, Connell, Velerius, Abrams, Lowe & Adler, Deborah A. Pitts, Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, Bethany K. Culp, Patrick McCoy, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, Lon Harris, Harris & Green, Stuart W. Axe, Lester, Schwab, Katz & Dwyer, Adrian Mercado, Mercado & Soto, Virgilio Mendez Cuesta, Ernesto Rodriguez-Suris, and Latimer, Biaggi, Rachid, Rodriguez-Suris & Godreau, were on consolidated briefs, for appellants.
Gary L. Bostwick, with whom R. Lance Belsome, was on brief, for appellees Hotel Systems Intern., et al.
Alvaro Calderon, with whom Will Kemp and Monita F. Sterling, PSC Liaison, were on brief, for appellee Plaintiffs' Steering Committee.
Before SELYA and CYR, Circuit Judges, and FUSTE, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals require us to grapple for the first time with a looming problem in modern federal court practice: how, if at all, should expenses indigenous to a court's handling of mass disaster litigation be reallocated once the winners and losers have been judicially determined? Here, the appellants, late-joined defendants and defendants in cross-claim, prevailed in the underlying litigation...
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