Legal Opinion
Guy v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 20, 2015No. 14-5496, 14-5501UnpublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
These two appeals, which we consider together, both ultimately derive from the sexual abuse of children by Ronald Berry, a sometime-employee of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) and founder of a non-profit summer program that LFUCG funded in part. Some of those children sued LFUCG and its officers on a variety of theories. The plaintiffs’ lawyers disputed fees, and some of the lawyers appeal the district court’s quashing of the attorney’s lien they placed on certain settlement proceeds. On the merits, the district court denied a number of…
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