Legal Opinion
Downing v. Goldman Phipps, PLLC
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 22, 2014No. 13-2345PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff class representatives Don Downing and Adam Levitt (Downing), lead counsel in a large multidistrict litigation (MDL) against Bayer CropScience LP and other defendants (Bayer), brought this action for unjust enrichment and quantum meruit against other plaintiff lawyers. The class alleges these other lawyers ben-efitted in their state court actions from litigation materials and work product generated in the MDL by the plaintiff class but refused to pay for it. Defendants include attorneys and firms Martin J. Phipps, Mikal C. Watts, Charles A. Banks, Goldman Phipps…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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