Citizen Band of Potawatomi Indians

Four attorneys of record in these dockets, Robert S. Johnson, Jack Joseph, Robert C. Bell, Jr., and the estate of Walter H. Maloney, seek an attorneys’ fee of $449,781.55 which is 10 percent of the final award of $4,497,815.59 ordered by this court on March 23, 1979. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. § 70n (1976) and the attorneys’ contracts as approved by the Department of the Interior, the attorneys seek the fee on their own behalf and for all counsel entitled to participate in the fee awarded in these dockets. The attorneys’ contract with the Citizen Band of Potawatomi provides that the compensation…