Legal Opinion
Dr. Bernard Heller Foundation v. Lee
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 23, 1988No. Nos. 87-3609, 87-3624PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
I
Factual and Procedural Background
The issues on this appeal concern only the district court’s order requiring plaintiffs to pay for certain of the attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by the successful defendants who are appellees here. Therefore, a brief summary of the underlying action will suffice for our purposes.
Dr. Bernard Heller and his nephew, Sidney Lee, each owned nearly 50% of the stock of West Indies Investment Co., Inc. and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries (jointly WIICO). When Dr. Heller died in *851976, he left his WIICO stock to the…
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- United States v. Moses LewisCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1972
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