United States Fifth Circuit

When an attorney is on notice that his fees may derive from a pool of frozen assets, a failure to make a good faith inquiry into the source of those fees will result in disgorgement of the funds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/20/2005
• Published 05/20/2005

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Andrew Singer (argued), John F. Daly, F.T.C., Washington, DC, for F.T.C., Steven Gregory White (argued), Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, Waco, TX, for Robert M. Draskovich.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gary Owen Caris (argued), Lesley Anne Hawes, Frandzel, Robins, Bloom & Csato, Los Angeles, CA, for Appellee.