Ratner v. Bakery & Confectionery Workers International Union of America

DANAHER, Circuit Judge:

These parties were previously before the court in Bakery and Confectionery Workers Internat’l U. v. Ratner1 when it was contended that the International and its members might not lawfully be subjected to payment of counsel fees to *505Attorney Ratner. It was argued then that the International and its membership had obtained no monetary “recovery” from which an allotment of counsel fees might be made pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 501(b).2 The International also submitted that no valid award could run against it without notice to its membership respecting fees. We rejected such…