CENTRAL PENSION FUND v. RAY HALUCH GRAVEL CO.

Nos. 11-1944, 11-1970.

745 F.3d 1 (2014)

CENTRAL PENSION FUND OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS AND PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. RAY HALUCH GRAVEL CO. et al., Defendants, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth L. Wagner , with whom Blitman & King LLP was on brief, for appellants/cross-appellees.

José A. Aguiar , with whom Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury and Murphy, P.C. was on brief, for appellees/cross-appellants.

Before THOMPSON, SELYA and DYK, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Although parties to civil litigation typically bear the burden of paying their own counsel, see Alyeska Pipeline Serv. Co. v. Wilderness Soc'y, 421 U.S. 240, 247, 95 S.Ct. 1612, 44 L.Ed.2d 141 (1975), statutes and contractual provisions sometimes alter that burden. When fee-shifting is in order, the trial judge, having superintended the litigation, has a superior coign of vantage — and he is expected...

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