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IN RE BENNY

No. 94-16242.

81 F.3d 91 (1996)

In re George I. BENNY, Debtor. Keith M. LUNDIN, Judge; Mark B. McFeeley, Judge; William L. Norton, Judge; George C. Paine, II, Judge; Hugh Robinson; Arthur N. Votolato, Jr., Judge, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. L. Ralph MECHAM, Director, of the AO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1996.

Amended April 11, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam Walinsky, Kornish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman, New York City, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Michael E. Robinson, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee.

Before: GOODWIN and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

A decade after the constitutionality of the current bankruptcy court structure was settled, the denial of attorney fees to the six bankruptcy judges whose efforts, as amici, had brought about the solution that satisfied both the Constitution and the judges, has produced this appeal.

The six bankruptcy judges were plaintiffs in the first case in a series of constitutional challenges to the 1984 Bankruptcy Act. Lundin v. Mecham,

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