The Rocky Mountain News has another article on the attorneys’ fees challenge in the $50 million settlement of the shareholder class action related to the merger of Qwest Communications and U.S. West. Having suggested that the settlement stunk “like a three-day-old unrefrigerated dead fish” (see this post), it is perhaps not surprising that the Association of U.S. West Retirees is pursing an appeal of the denial of its fees challenge.