United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's lack standing to appeal, in a case involving attorneys' fees; accordingly the appeal is dismissed without reaching the question of whether the district court abused its discretion in awarding the attorneys' fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2003
• Published 12/05/2003

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and WEINER , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchell E. Herr, Holland & Knight, LLP, Miami, FL, John H. Pelzer, Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell PA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Kenneth B. Winer, Foley & Lardner, Stephen J. Crimmins, Pepper & Hamilton, LLP, Washington, DC, Jeff A. Moyer, Stenger & Stenger, P.C., Grand Rapids, MI, for Appellants., Luis de la Torre, Karen J. Shimp, Eric Summergrad, S.E.C., Washington, DC, for S.E.C., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rhett Traband, Thomas Tew, Lawrence Allan Kellogg, Tew, Cardenas, Rebak, Kellogg, Lehman, Demaria & Tague LLP, Barton S. Sacher, Stanley A. Beiley, Sacher, Zelman, Vansant, Paul, Beiley, Hartman & Waldman, David Scott Mandel, Mandel & McAuley, LLP, Nancy J. Van Sant, Hornsby, Sacher, Zelman & Stanton PA, Mitchell E. Herr, Miami, FL, Nicolas Marsh, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, W. Gordon Dobie, Bruce R. Braun, John E. Mooney, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.