IN RE SULZER ORTHOPEDICS, INC.

Nos. 03-4155, 03-4156.

398 F.3d 778 (2005)

In re: SULZER ORTHOPEDICS, INC. Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. (03-4155); Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos (03-4156), Appellants, v. Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: February 22, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Glenn Zuckerman, Weitz & Luxenberg, New York, New York, Janet G. Abaray, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants. ON BRIEF: Glenn Zuckerman, Weitz & Luxenberg, New York, New York, Janet G. Abaray, Gregory A. Keyser, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants.

Before: MARTIN, COLE, and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.

The law firms of Weitz & Luxenberg and Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos separately appeal the amount of attorney fees awarded to them by the district court in connection with their efforts to confer a "Common Benefit" to the plaintiff class in a multi-district litigation class action settlement. Because the firms present similar arguments based on the same opinion of the district court, we have...

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