Legal Opinion
United States v. American Society of Composers
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 11, 1972No. 678, Docket 71-1944PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is a sequel to this court’s decision in United States v. A.S.C.A.P., 442 F.2d 601 (2d Cir. 1971). Appellants here are the three law firms that represented the appellants in the earlier case, and their claim on appeal is that the attorneys’ fee awarded them by the district court on remand is inadequate.
This court’s earlier decision concerned the distribution of a sum of money received by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as license fees from the Columbia Broadcasting System and the American Broadcasting Co. That money, which amounts to…
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