IN RE SEPTEMBER 11 LITIGATION

No. 21 MC 101 (formerly 21 MC 97) (AKH).

567 F.Supp.2d 611 (2008)

In re SEPTEMBER 11 LITIGATION.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 24, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas J. Pepe, Gregory P. Joseph, Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices, LLC, Zafer Adem Akin, Akin & Smith, LLC, David Jaroslawicz, Jaroslawicz & Jaros, LLC, Robert Joseph Tolchin, Robert J. Tolchin, Esq., Frank H. Granito, Jr., Speiser, Krause, Nolan & Granito, Bruce M. Friedman, Paul Fredric Kovner, Rubin, Fiorella & Friedman, L.L.P., Charles Edward Joseph, Joseph and Herzfeld, Christopher Bruce Hitchcock, Hitchcock & Cummings LLC, Stephen Mortimer Marcusa, Bigham Englar Jones & Houston, Dale Christian Christensen, Jr., Seward & Kissel LLP, Marina Ann Spinner, Nicoletti, Gonson & Bielat, L.L.P., Frank M. Nicoletti, Nicoletti, Gonson & Spinner L.L.P., Gregg Herbert Kanter, Jason Todd Cohen, Flemming Zulack Williamson Zauderer, LLP, New York, NY, Jennifer E. Shafer, Kristopher E. Kuehn, Timothy W. Triplett, James M. Warden, Warden Triplett Grier, Overland Park, KS, Robert J. Bates, Robert J. Bates, Esq., Westwood, NJ, Thaniel James Beinert, The Law Office of Thaniel J. Beinert and Associates, Brooklyn, NY, Carol M. Rooney, Paul B. Butler, Butler Pappas Weihmuller Katz Craig, LLP, Scott S. Katz, Tampa, FL, Kimberly M. Collins, Robert A. Clifford, Timothy S. Tomasik, Clifford Law Offices, P.C., Chicago, IL, H. Jerome Gette, M. Anthony Parsons, II, Steven J. Badger, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel Mason & Gette LLP, Dallas, TX, James S. Reece, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel Mason & Gette LLP, Minneapolis, MN, Michael Joseph Kuckelman, Pleasantville, NY, Franklin Michael Sachs, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, Woodbridge, NJ, Mark Leigh Antin, Stanley Walter Kallmann, Gennet, Kallmann, Antin & Robinson, P.C., Parsippany, NJ, Judson Howard Lipowitz, Azrael, Gann & Franz, LLP, Baltimore, MD, Michael Edward Eisner, Motley Rice LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC, for Plaintiffs.

7 World Trade Company, L.P., pro se.

Desmond Thomas Barry, Jr., Condon and Forsyth LLP, Brian V. Otero, Michelle R. Parker, Hunton & Williams, LLP, James Patrick Connors, Jones Hirsch Connors and Bull, P.C., Jon Paul Robbins, McLaughlin and Stern, LLP, Peter James Gallagher, Derek Adam McNally, Kennedy Johnson Gallagher, LLC, Jacqueline Keller, Rubin, Fiorella & Friedman, L.L.P., Kevin J. O'Neill, Stephen Paul Schreckinger, Gogick, Byrne & O'Neill, L.L.P., Christopher H. Lunding, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP, John J. McDonough, Cozen, O'Connor, Timothy Joseph Keane, Brian Patrick Sexton, Jeffrey J. Ellis, Loretta Anne Redmond, Quirk and Bakalor, P.C., Jeffrey W. Moryan, Connell, Foley, L.L.P., Willard Mark Wood, John L. Altieri, Jr., O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Beth. D. Jacob, Donald Allen Klein, Schiff Hardin LLP, M. Bradford Stein, Richard Arthur Williamson, Flemming Zulack Williamson Zauderer, LLP, H. Christopher Boehning, Robert A. Atkins, Douglas M. Pravda, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Katherine Lindsay Pringle, Eric Jonathan Seiler, Heather Jo Windt, Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, Melissa Tabako Billig, Robert Alan Banner, Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP, David Moore Lindsey, James Milton Hosking, Clifford Chance US, LLP, Daniel John McNamara, DeCicco, Gibbons & McNamara, P.C., Carol A. Sigmond, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller, LLP, Michael T. Rogers, Vashali Maria Aggarwal, Wasserman Grubin & Rogers LLP, Chad Everette Sjoquist, Zetlin & De Chiara, LLP, Thomas V. Giordano, Zeynel Karcioglu, Esq., Mark Joseph Weber, Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass, New York, NY, Gary William Westerberg, Robert P. Conlon, Lord, Bissell & Brook, L.L.P., Adam Randall Sorkin, Shiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL, Johnathan Jeffrey Ross, H. Lee Godfrey, Laurie Gallun, Max Tribble, Susman Godfrey LLP, Houston, TX, Bruce Richard Wildermuth, Alexis M. Dougherty, Edward James McMurrer, Ralph Vincent Pagano, Mendes & Mount, LLP, Newark, NJ, Dennis M. O'Hara, Jason A. Glusman, Robert C. Bauroth, Wicker, Smith, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Veronica Spicer, Jeffrey W. Moryan, Connell Foley LLP, Roseland, NJ, Kathleen Marie Guilfoyle, Kurt Bernard Gerstner, Richard P. Campbell, Campbell, Campbell, Edwards & Conroy, P.C., Boston, MA, Sarah D. Youngblood, Schiff Hardin LLP, San Francisco, CA, Mack H. Shultz, Jr., Steven C. Minson, Thomas Jeffrey McLaughlin, Todd W. Rosencrans, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA, David A. Harrison, L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP, Garden City, NY, Daniel W. Morrison, III, Michael P. Benenati, Bleakley Piatt & Schmidt, LLP, White Plains, NY, for Defendants.

James A. Gallagher, Jr., Gallagher, Gosseen, Faller & Crowley, Garden City, NY, Michael J. Crowley, Gallagher Harnett & Lagalante LLP, New York, NY, for Movant.


OPINION AND ORDER REGULATING FEE ALLOWANCES AND DISAPPROVING SETTLEMENTS

ALVIN K. HELLERSTEIN, District Judge:

Four of the last remaining plaintiff's in the wrongful death actions against the airlines and other aviation defendants of 9/11 seek judicial approval to distribute the proceeds of their settlements. The law firm that represents them, Azrael, Gann & Franz, seeks a higher percentage of the settlement amounts as a contingent fee award than...

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