Legal Opinion
Kiser v. Miller
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 29, 1973No. Civ. A. 2599-70, 2088-71PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.
This case is before this Court on remand from the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to determine the question of appropriate counsel fees to be awarded to the attorneys for the Kiser class and the attorneys for the two groups of intervenors, the Adkins group and the Moore group.
The matter of counsel fees is a subject of great controversy, with the eye of storm fixed on the standards by which the fee is regulated and set. No standard can be applied in a vacuum. Therefore, before turning to the merits of the award, the Court…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Taylor Roark v. John L. Lewis, Maude W. Reese, of the Last Will and Testament of Joe S. Rees(e) v. John L. Lewis, Theo R. Fuller v. John L. LewisCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the InteriorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
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- Village of Shorewood v. SteinbergWisconsin Supreme Court · 1993
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