Legal Opinion
Max I. Bittner v. Sadoff & Rudoy Industries
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 9, 1984No. 83-1130, 83-2299PublishedCited by 220 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Max Bittner, appeals from a judgment for the defendant, 98 F.R.D. 310, Sadoff & Rudoy Industries, a Wisconsin firm in the scrap-metal business, and from a separate order awarding attorney’s fees to the defendant in an amount yet to be determined. The appeals bring up to us a variety of issues, of which the most difficult relate to procedural and substantive aspects of attorney-fee awards under ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq.
Bittner (a vice-president of Sadoff & Ru-doy, reporting to Edward Rudoy, the firm’s general…
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