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UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, A. & P.

No. 678, Docket 71-1944.

466 F.2d 917 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, Defendant-Appellee, Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, Kant, Gordon & Meyers, and Cooper & Hurewitz, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay H. Topkis, New York City (Allan L. Blumstein, New York City, Leonard H. Becker, Washington, D. C., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Herman Finkelstein, New York City, on brief), for appellee.

Louis Nizer, New York City (Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, New York City, Kant, Gordon & Meyers and Cooper & Hurewitz, Beverly Hills, Cal., on brief), for appellants pro se.

Before MOORE, SMITH and HAYS, Circuit Judges.

HAYS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is a sequel to this court's decision in United States v. A.S.C.A.P., 442 F.2d 601 (2d Cir. 1971). Appellants here are the three law firms that represented the appellants in the earlier case, and their claim on appeal is that the attorneys' fee awarded them by the district court on remand is inadequate.

This court's earlier decision concerned the distribution of a sum of money received by the...

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