United States Second Circuit

Orders approving settlements in a class action brought by professional models against modeling agencies for conspiracy to fix commissions in violation of the Sherman Act, awarding attorneys' fees, and allocating the proceeds of settlement with a bankrupt defendant, are vacated insofar as they relate to the distribution of settlement proceeds and award of counsel fees as the district court erred in: 1) failing to allocate funds to members of the class as treble damages; 2) calculating counsel fees; and 3) taking into account, in setting the percentage fee, the conduct for which counsel already was sanctioned.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2007
• Published 01/05/2007

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge., Before MINER, POOLER, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul R. Verkuil (Christina M. Lewicky, on the brief), Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, NY, for plaintiffs-appellants and appellant., Andrew W. Hayes, Andrew W. Hayes P.C., New York, NY, Anthony J. Bolognese, Bolognese & Associates LLC, Merill G. Davidoff, Berger & Montague P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Olav A. Haazen, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, NY, for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Elbaum (Kenneth R. Logan, on the brief), Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY, for defendants-appellees Ford Models, Inc. and Gerard W. Ford., Philip Bentley (Jack Hazan, on the brief), Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee EMMC, Inc., f/k/a Elite Model Management Corporation., Jerome Gotkin, Mintz, Levin, Cohen, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C., New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Next Management, LLC, f/k/a Next Management Company., Aaron Richard Golub, Law Office of Aaron Richard Golub, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Click Model Management, Inc., David Bosman, Boss Models, Judah S. Shapiro, Law Offices of Judah S. Shapiro, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Boss Models, Inc., Richard S. Oelsner, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, White Plains, NY, for defendant-appellee IMG Models, Inc., Sandor Frankel, (M. Breeze McMennamin, on the brief), Frankel & Abrams, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Wilhelmina Model Agency, Inc., a/k/a Wilhelmina Artist Management LLC., Thomas M. Lopez, Katsky LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee DNA Model Management LLC., David Blasband, McLaughlin & Stern LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Zoli Management, Inc.