Legal Opinion
In Re Thirteen Appeals Arising Out of the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 30, 1995No. 94-1156, 94-1409, 94-1414, 94-1422, 94-1423, 94-1426, 94-1427, 94-1438, 94-1439, 94-1440PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These appeals require us to revisit the war zone where two groups of plaintiffs’ lawyers have struggled over the proposed allocation of roughly $68,000,000 in attorneys’ fees.' One camp, dissatisfied with the district court’s latest formula for distributing the fees, attacks the court’s order on three fronts. The disgruntled lawyers contend that the district court (1) violated their due process rights, (2) used an improper method to determine the awards, and (3) divided the available monies in an arbitrary and unreasonable manner. We find appellants’ first two plaints to…
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