Fatemah AZIZIAN; Soraya Farrah; Eunice Fey; Rose Gonzales; Kazuko Y. Morgan; Nicola Nelson-Torres; Monique Patrick; Judith Pogran; Pamela Powell; Shirley Powell; Rose Skillman on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated; Hannah Feldman; Nikki Hurst Gibson, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
Kamela Wilkinson, Appellant,
Susan Casenza; Valerie Theng Matherne, Intervenors-Appellees,
v.
FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES, INC.; Boucheron (USA) Ltd.; Chanel, Inc.; Parfums Givenchy, Inc.; Guerlain, Inc.; Christian Dior Perfumes, Inc.; Conopco, Inc.; L'Oreal USA, Inc.; The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.; Clarins U.S.A. Inc.; Dillard's Inc.; Target Corporation; Gottschalks, Inc.; Saks Incorporated; The May Department Stores Company; Nordstrom, Inc.; The Neiman-Marcus Group, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
Fatemah Azizian; Soraya Farrah; Eunice Fey; Rose Gonzales; Kazuko Y. Morgan; Nicola Nelson-Torres; Monique Patrick; Judith Pogran; Pamela Powell; Shirley Powell; Rose Skillman on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated; Hannah Feldman; Nikki Hurst Gibson, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
Kamela Wilkinson, Appellant,
Susan Casenza; Valerie Theng Matherne, Intervenors-Appellees,
v.
Federated Department Stores, Inc.; Boucheron (USA) Ltd.; Chanel, Inc.; Parfums Givenchy, Inc.; Guerlain, Inc.; Christian Dior Perfumes, Inc.; Conopco, Inc.; L'Oreal USA, Inc.; The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.; Clarins U.S.A. Inc.; Dillard's Inc.; Target Corporation; Gottschalks, Inc.; Saks Incorporated; The May Department Stores Company; Nordstrom, Inc.; The Neiman-Marcus Group, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued and Submitted March 14, 2007.
Filed August 23, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William F. Abbott, San Francisco, CA; Kent F. Brooks, Dallas, TX, for appellant Kamela Wilkinson.
John W. Allured, San Francisco, CA; Gretchen M. Nelson, Los Angeles, CA; W. Timothy Needham, Janssen Malloy Needham, Eureka, CA; J. Garrett Kendrick, Kendrick & Nutley, Beverly Hills, CA; John L. Burris, Oakland, CA; Francis O. Scarpulla, Craig C. Corbitt, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel Mason & Gette, San Francisco, CA; Susan G. Taylor, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Joseph R. Saveri, Lieff Cabraser & Heimann, San Francisco, CA; John H. Boone, San Francisco, CA; Josef D. Cooper, Cooper & Kirkham, San Francisco, CA; Terry Gross, Gross & Belsky, San Francisco, CA; Guido Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, San Francisco, CA; Alan R. Plutzik, Bramson Plutzik Mahler & Birhaeuser, Walnut Creek, CA; Angelina Grace, Law Firm of Joseph M. Alioto, San Francisco, CA; Daniel J. Mogin, Mogin Law Firm, San Diego, CA; Michael J. Flannery, David Danis Law Firm, St. Louis, MO; Robert Diskint, Critchlow & Diskint, San Rafael, CA, Ben Furth, Furth Firm, San Francisco, CA; John J. Pentz, Class Action Fairness Group, Maynard, MA; Michael A. Caddell, Caddell & Chapman, Houston, TX; Mary L. Needham, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.
Phillip Aaron Proger, Amy Anne Stathos, Jones Day, Washington, DC, Bruce H. Jackson, Baker & McKenzie, San Francisco, CA; Peter J. Venaglia, Dornbush Mensch Mandelstam & Schaeffer, New York, NY; Terri Garland, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA; Marta Miyar, Bingham McCutchen, San Francisco, CA; Joel S. Sanders, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, San Francisco, CA; Bruce A. Colbath, Weil Gotshal and Manges, New York, NY; Jeffrey Knowles, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, San Francisco, CA; Frederic W. Yerman, Kaye Scholer, New York, NY; Michael W. Bien, Rosen Bien & Asaro, San Francisco, CA; Charles Berwanger, Gordon & Rees, San Diego, CA; James T. Fousekis, DLA Piper US, San Francisco, CA; Anita Fern Stork, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA; Samuel R. Miller, Folger Levin & Kahn, San Francisco, CA; Marlene J. Williams, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, San Francisco, CA; Gregory Philip Farnham, Townsend Townsend & Crew, San Francisco, CA; Matthew W. Hoffman, Elizabeth Runyan Geise, Goodwin Procter, Washington, D.C.; Ronald J. Dolan, St. Louis, MO; James L. McGinnis, Gary L. Halling, Shepherd Mullin Richter and Hampton, San Francisco, CA; Larry Steven Gangnes, Lane Powell, Seattle, WA; J. Thomas Rosch, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.
Andrew James Kopp, Oakland, CA; Steven B. Witman, Metairie, LA, for the intervenors-appellees.
Before: PROCTER HUG, JR., MELVIN BRUNETTI, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
OPINION
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises from a class member/objector's challenge to the district court's final approval of a settlement of the antitrust claims of a certified nationwide class of consumers of department store cosmetics. We must decide two questions.
First, as a matter of first impression, we must decide whether, or under what circumstances, appellate attorney's fees are "costs on appeal" that a district court...
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