053833P.pdf   08/10/2006  Gas Aggregation Serv  v.  Thomas A. Foster
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-3833
                          and No:  06-1596
   District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Lay and Riley, Circuit Judges]
   Civil Case - attorney lien. District court's order affording full faith and
   credit to state court judgment imposing attorney's lien on recovery is
   affirmed, as res judicata applies to preclude GSI from relitigating issue. 
   Attorney's lien was properly based on the amount of the judgment, not the
   settlement, because of evidence of attempts to defraud attorney of his fee. 
   Award of attorneys fee to attorney to perfect the attorney's lien was not an
   abuse of discretion, as there was evidence to support the district court's
   finding of bad faith. District court was not divested of jurisdiction 
   to rule on enforcement of attorney's lien because judgment had not been 
   entered. District court did not err in holding federal proceedings in 
   abeyance pending outcome of state malpractice action.