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POLONSKI v. TRUMP TAJ MAHAL ASSOCIATES

No. 96-5655.

137 F.3d 139 (1998)

Jacqueline POLONSKI; Oscar Berrios; Michele Boyle; Neil Browen, Sr.; Judy Lowe-Brown; Maria Buchel; Dori Byrnes; Donna Campo-Polkalski; Joann Carman; Stephanie Postlewait-Castaldi; Michele Cocozza; Doris Spiegel-Conti; Jeannanne Deluca; Noelle Disomma; Elizabeth J. Ellis; Sharon Fatato; Jamie Feldman; Tyler Fitzgerald; Cindi Franco; Tracey Giery; Katurah Godaro; Guillermo Rivera; Michael Hainsworth; Scott C. Johnson; Sandra Lancieri; Catherine Liosi; Debra Lupu; Richard Marin; Irene Martinez; Kim Meersand; Beverly L. Miranda; Lina Montecalvo; Diane Moosher; Muriel Nale; Vivian Nutlie; Patrice Pinchock; Vince Pompili; Kathleen Quinn; Darlene Robinson; Theresa Schweighardt; Denise Stauffenberg; Julie A. Strzmiechna; Sharon Tabasco; Sharon Tocco; Kim Vinci; Sally Weisdock; Sharon Wolf; Robin Youshaw (Hereinafter Cocktail Servers); Michael Raco; Veronica Wilson; Joseph Antonelli; Richard Fante; Daniel Moranis; Louis Nastasi; Richard Rosen; Maurice Sherrod; William Tracy; John Withers, (Hereinafter Bartenders) v. TRUMP TAJ MAHAL ASSOCIATES; Local 54, of the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union (H.E.R.E.I.U.); ABC, Inc., (a fictitious name); John Doe, (a fictitious name) (D.C. Civil 91-cv-03014). Dorothea A. ARCURI; Patricia Brooks, Victoria Bryant; Karen Carlini; Robert Donovan; Philip K. Ferguson; Nancy Guerrera; Robert Hingos; Lee A. Kinsell; Charles McBride; June McBride; Rosalie McCarthy; Michele McCartney; Janet M. Medio; Linda Meranus; Gregory Natale; Marianne K. Ortzman; Ronald Pagano; Anna Marie Platania; Geri Shannon; Donald Silano; Jeanette Sopuch; Kenneth W. Strain; Trasena Tauso; Elizabeth Walker; Victoria Weger; Richard Zak; Joanne Capetola; John Lascowski; Adrienne M. Palermo; Mary Ann Peterson; Susan Petrone; Barry L. Wright v. TRUMP TAJ MAHAL ASSOCIATES; Local 54, of the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union (H.E.R.E.I.U.); ABC, Inc., (a fictitious name); John Doe, (a fictitious name) (D.C. Civil 91-cv-03529), Local 54, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Phillips, Patrick C. Campbell, Jr. (Argued), Richard G. Phillips Associates, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.

Theodore M. Lieverman, Robert F. O'Brien, James Katz (Argued), Tomar, Simonoff, Adourian, O'Brien, Kaplan, Jacoby & Graziano, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Appellant Local 54 HERE.

Before: GREENBERG, ROTH and SEITZ, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

Local 54 Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union ("the Union") appeals the district court's award of attorney's fees against it under the common benefit exception to the American rule limiting recovery.1 We will review, under a plenary standard, the legal interpretation of the common benefit doctrine and whether the district court possessed the authority to apply...

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