Opinion

Pete ex rel. Belton v. United Mine Workers of America Welfare & Retirement Fund of 1950

  • 517 F.2d 1267
  • 170 U.S. App. D.C. 437
  • 86 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 3208
  • 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 7335
Court
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Filed
Aug 5, 1974
Status
Published
Author
Edwards
On the bench
Edwards, Sixth, Tamm, Wilkey
Cited by
7 cases
Authority
More cited than 1.6%

final time logs used only as basis before discounting and applying fee formula

How later courts described this case

  • final time logs used only as basis before discounting and applying fee formula
  • proposing fee adjustment according to “risk of litigation”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

EDWARDS, * Circuit Judge

(dissenting on one issue):

For the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Kiser, et al. v. Huge, et al. and United Mine Workers of America Welfare & Retirement Fund of 1950, 170 U.S.App.D.C. 407 , 517 F.2d 1237 (No. 73-1393, Aug. 5, 1974). I dissent from that portion of the remand which would instruct or allow the District Judge to order pensions for any claimant with less than five years of signatory service.

On all other issues I join the opinion of the court.

Sitting by designation pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 291 (a).

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