United States Second Circuit

In a settlement of the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation, denial of plaintiff-attorney's request for attorney fees is affirmed where his participation did not substantially contribute to amendments which modified the settlement agreement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2005
• Published 09/12/2005

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  MESKILL, NEWMAN, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward Labaton, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow, LLP, New York, NY (Arthur J. England, Jr., Charles M. Auslander, and Brenda K. Supple, Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, FL;  Samuel J. Dubbin, Dubbin & Kravetz, LLP, Coral Gables, FL;  Stephen Burbank, Philadelphia, PA, of counsel) for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Burt Neuborne, New York, NY, and Robert A. Swift, Kohn Swift & Graf, PC, Philadelphia, PA (Melvyn I. Weiss, Deborah M. Sturman, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, New York, NY;  Morris A. Ratner, Caryn Becker, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY) for Appellees.