Legal Opinion
Donald Knight and Foster Pepper & Shefelman, a Law Partnership, Plaintiffs/cross-Appellants v. The United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 6, 1993No. 91-1454, 91-1488 and 92-1112PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Chief Judge.
The United States appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska (entered June 10, 1991), in Civil Action No. A90-093, awarding Foster Pepper & Shefelman (Foster Pepper) $4,054.42, pursuant to an Alaska attorney’s lien statute, for administrative advocacy on behalf of four employees (of which Knight is one) of the Department of the Interior. 1 Knight and Foster Pepper (collectively, “plaintiffs”) cross-appeal seeking to obtain awards under the Back Pay Act, the Equal Access to Justice Act, and a “common fund” theory. We conclude that…
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