Legal Opinion
Rein v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 5, 2009No. Docket 06-4565-cvPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVAL, Circuit Judge:
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP (“Emery”), which represented six prevailing plaintiffs in a consolidated lawsuit against Libya arising out of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, appeals from a sealed order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Platt, J.) ordering it to pay out of the contingency fees it negotiated with its clients a portion consisting of 3% of its clients’ recovery (equivalent to $1,440,000, or $240,000 per client) to the plaintiffs’ committee appointed by the court to oversee the…
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