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IN RE AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN BANK HOLOCAUST

Docket Nos. 01-9193L, 01-9229(CON).

317 F.3d 91 (2003)

In re AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN BANK HOLOCAUST LITIGATION. Walter Steven Zeisl, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Harold Watman, on behalf of himself and all other persons similarly situated, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, et al., Real-Parties-in-Interest-Appellees, Burt Neuborne, Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 3, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Randol Schoenberg, Los Angeles, CA (Richard A. Roth, Littman Krooks & Roth, P.C., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lawrence Kill, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Robert A. Swift, Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa.; Edward D. Fagan, Livingston, N.J.; Carey R. D'Avino, New York, N.Y.; Michael Witti, Monchen, Germany; Stephen A. Whinston, Edward W. Millstein, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa.; Richard Appleby, New York, N.Y.; Mel Urbach, Jersey City, N.J.; J. Dennis Faucher, Miller Faucher Caferty and Wexler LLP, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Morris A. Ratner, New York, N.Y. (Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Caryn Becker, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, on the brief), for Real-Party-in-Interest-Appellee Lieff, Cabraser.

Burt Neuborne, New York, N.Y., for Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

Before: NEWMAN and F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges; and UNDERHILL, District Judge.

Judge F.I. PARKER concurs in the result with a separate opinion.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns a claim that attorney's fees paid to lawyers for services rendered in connection with the creation of a multi-billion dollar fund to compensate victims of the Holocaust should be forfeited because of an alleged conflict of interest. Walter Steven Zeisl appeals from the October 1, 2001, order of the District Court for the Southern District of...

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