IN RE COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS

Nos. 93-56675, 93-56676, 94-56695.

109 F.3d 602 (1997)

In re COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. STATE OF FLORIDA, ex rel. Robert A. BUTTERWORTH, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. EXXON CORPORATION, Defendant, and Stephen L. Dunne, Appellant-Cross-Appellee. In re COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Stephen L. DUNNE, Appellant, v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA; State of Arizona; State of Oregon; State of Washington, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Exxon Corporation, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 24, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. Conners, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, for the State of Florida, plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant.

Stephanie L. Striffler, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, for the States of Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington, appellees.

Mary G. Swift, Hackett & Associates, New Orleans, Louisiana, for Stephen L. Dunne, appellant-cross-appellee.

Before: T.G. NELSON and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges, and LEGGE, District Judge.


KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

These two appeals raise a number of questions regarding attorneys' fees in two common fund cases.

FACTS

Dunne began practicing law in 1970 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Louisiana. He worked there on some antitrust cases for the United States Department of Justice in 1971. Then he transferred to the Department of Justice antitrust division in Washington...

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