United States Ninth Circuit

An amount of attorney's fees awarded to plaintiff for work his attorney allegedly performed to secure a late payment award under section 914(f) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) from plaintiff's former employer is affirmed where the district court properly excluded fees not available under section 928(c) of the LHWCA and appropriately exercised its discretion in excluding duplicative fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/27/2007
• Published 12/27/2007

Judges

• MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joshua T. Gillelan II, Longshore Claimants' National Law Center, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Nakano, Frame Formby & O'Kane, Honolulu, HI, for the defendant-appellee.