Legal Opinion
In Re Two Appeals Arising Out of the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 4, 1993No. 92-2312, 92-2313PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals require us to grapple for the first time with a looming problem in modern federal court practice: how, if at all, should expenses indigenous to a court’s handling of mass disaster litigation be .reallocated once the winners and losers have been judicially determined? Here, the appellants, late-joined defendants and defendants in cross-claim, prevailed in the underlying litigation. Nonetheless, the district court, coincident with the entry of judgment, effectively foreclosed them from either seeking costs under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d) or otherwise…
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