In Re Benny

81 F.3d 91 34 Fed.R.Serv.3d 331 , 28 Bankr.Ct.Dec. 1037 , 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2542 , 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 4208 , 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 4323 In re George I. BENNY, Debtor. Keith M. LUNDIN, Judge; Mark B. McFeeley, Judge; William L. Norton, Judge; George C. Paine, II, Judge; Hugh Robinson; Arthur N. Votolato, Jr., Judge, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. L. Ralph MECHAM, Director, of the AO, Defendant-Appellee. No. 94-16242. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 4, 1995. Decided March 18, 1996. Amended April 11, 1996. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Robert H. Schnacke, District Judge, Presiding and Saundra B. Armstrong, District Judge, Presiding. Adam Walinsky, Kornish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman, New York City, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Michael E. Robinson, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee. Before: GOODWIN and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and KING, * District Judge. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge: 1 A decade after the constitutionality of the current bankruptcy court structure was settled, the denial of attorney fees to the six bankruptcy judges…