Legal Opinion
Doyle v. Turner
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 7, 2000No. 86 CIV 2792 (CSH)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HAIGHT, Senior District Judge.
This case is before the Court on remand from the Court of Appeals. See Doyle v. Kamenkowitz, 114 F.3d 371 (2d Cir.1997). At issue is the right of former officers of a labor union to recover from that union attorney’s fees incurred by those former officers in successfully defending against claims for wrongdoing asserted against them by the union and its successor officers.
The union refuses to pay its former officers’ attorney’s fees. This Court held, in Doyle v. Turner, 886 F.Supp. 399 (S.D.N.Y.1995), that § 501(b) of the…
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