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VIZCAINO v. MICROSOFT CORP.

Nos. 01-35494, 01-35644.

290 F.3d 1043 (2002)

Donna Vizcaino; Lesley Stuart, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Donna VIZCAINO; Jon R. Waite; Mark Stout; Geoffrey Culbert; Lesley Stuart; Thomas Morgan; Elizabeth Spokoiny; Larry Spokoiny, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, and its health and benefits plans: Health Benefit Plan, Life Insurance Plan, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Plans, and Savings (401K) Plan, Defendant. Donna Vizcaino; Lesley Stuart, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Donna Vizcaino; Jon R. Waite; Mark Stout; Geoffrey Culbert; Thomas Morgan; Elizabeth Spokoiny; Larry Spokoiny; Lesley Stuart, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Microsoft Corporation, and its health and benefits plans: Health Benefit Plan, Life Insurance Plan, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Plans, and Savings (401K) Plan, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 15, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Wiggins, Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Stephen K. Strong, David F. Stobaugh, Stephen K. Festor and Brian J. Waid, Bendich, Stobaugh & Strong, P.C., Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Law Offices of Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Berkeley, CA, for the plaintiffs-objectors-appellants.

Carol S. Arnold, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellee.

Before REINHARDT and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

OPINION

SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Once more we must address an issue arising out of the protracted litigation between Microsoft Corporation and its freelance workers, this time to decide whether the district court abused its discretion in the amount of attorneys' fees it awarded to class counsel.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Beginning in 1987, Microsoft supplemented its workforce with workers known as "freelancers," who agreed...

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