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CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. CHAS. PFIZER & CO.

Nos. 68 Civ. 4298, 68 Civ. 4299, 69 Civ. 4629.

345 F.Supp. 454 (1972)

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA and City of Detroit, Plaintiffs, v. CHAS. PFIZER & CO., Inc., et al., Defendants. FORT PIERCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, and Deborah Hospital on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CHAS. PFIZER & CO., Inc., et al., Defendants. HAVERFORD HOSPITAL CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. CHAS. PFIZER & CO., Inc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

May 31, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold E. Kohn, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioners; Harold E. Kohn, P. A., David Berger, David Berger, P. A., Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York City, for defendant Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.; J. Paul McGrath, New York City, of counsel.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for defendant American Cyanamid Co.; Roy W. McDonald, New York City, of counsel.

Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, New York City, for defendant Bristol-Myers Co.; Merrell E. Clark, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

WYATT, District Judge.

This is a petition by Harold E. Kohn (and by other counsel associated with him), attorney for plaintiffs in these class actions, for an order approving a fee of $2,000,000, to be paid by defendants to Kohn and his associates. The petition is undated but was submitted in open Court on January 24, 1972 in the presence of counsel for defendants and was at that time ordered by me to be filed and docketed. Mr. Kohn and counsel for defendants were...

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