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IN RE A.H. ROBINS CO., INC.

Nos. 95-2239, 95-2032, 95-2033, 95-2236, 95-2240.

86 F.3d 364 (1996)

In re A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Debtor. Paul W. BERGSTROM; A. Russell Blank; Thomas J. Brandi; Mari C. Bush; William D. Cook; Peter Danziger; Glenn A. Dorfman; J. Michael Egan; Paul E. Fagan; Michael Fields; Joseph S. Friedberg; Michael Friedman; William C. Gage; Abraham N. Goldman and Associates, Limited; Jeffrey Holl; James B. Hovland; Arthur C. Johnson; Charles Johnson; Rodney A. Klein; Martina Langley; Edward C.Y. Lau; Stan Linker; Henri E. Norris; Ralph Pittle; Michael A. Pretl; Ron Schnieder; Gregory J. Semanko; Sybil Shainwald; Andrew S. Zieve, Appellants, v. DALKON SHIELD CLAIMANTS TRUST, Trust-Appellee. In re A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, Incorporated, Debtor. Glenn A. DORFMAN, Appellant, v. DALKON SHIELD CLAIMANTS TRUST, Trust-Appellee. In re A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, Incorporated, Debtor. MEDICAL LEGAL CONSULTANTS OF WASHINGTON, Appellant, v. DALKON SHIELD CLAIMANTS TRUST, Trust-Appellee. In re A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, Incorporated, Debtor. LEVIN, FISHBEIN, SEDRAN & BERMAN, Appellant, v. DALKON SHIELD CLAIMANTS TRUST, Trust-Appellee. In re A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, Incorporated, Debtor. Michael R. TUCKER, Appellant, v. DALKON SHIELD CLAIMANTS TRUST, Trust-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Benjamin C. Ackerly, Sr., Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants. John Calvin Jeffries, Jr., University Of Virginia School Of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Lewis T. Booker, Tyler P. Brown, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants. George A. Rutherglen, University Of Virginia School Of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia; Orran Lee Brown, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by published opinion. Senior Judge CHAPMAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge RUSSELL and Judge WIDENER joined.

OPINION

CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Four hundred years ago William Shakespeare observed that lawyers "dream on fees."* During the ensuing centuries, few lawyers, even in their wildest dreams, have envisioned fees such as those that have resulted from mass...

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