Challenge to a district court’s judgment limiting an attorney’s legal fees in representation of whistleblower clients in government’s investigation of a shipping company for discharging oil

US v. Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., 09-2684, concerned a challenge to a district court’s decision limiting an attorney’s legal fees under two contingent fee agreements while representing two whistleblowers, in proceedings arising out of a government investigation in six judicial districts into allegations that a shipping company had for years engaged in the practice of discharging oil from its vessels in American waters and falsifying mandatory ship records to conceal the discharges, in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

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  • Read the First Circuit’s Full Decision in US v. Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., 09-2684

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