Legal Opinion
Securities & Exchange Commission v. United Financial Group, Inc.
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided November 6, 1975No. Civ. 72-41PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SKOPIL, District Judge:
I must determine whether attorney’s fees and expenses should be awarded from a receivership estate to four sets of attorneys who have represented various parties to three separate actions. These actions arose out of securities fraud committed in the sale of so-called “offshore mutual funds”. Because of the complexity of the facts underlying these applications for fees and expenses, the history of the litigation is summarized below.
THE LITIGATION
The first action, 1 a Federal Rule 23 class action, was filed by John M. Geddes, plaintiff, on October 13, 1971, in the…
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