Legal Opinion
Northcross v. Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 23, 1979No. Nos. 78-1289 to 78-1291, 78-1458 and 78-1459PublishedCited by 303 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
These appeals challenge the award of fees made by the district court in the course of the Memphis school desegregation case. In this opinion, the Court will address a few of the remaining legal controversies concerning the proper application and interpretation of 42 U.S.C. § 1988, the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976, which authorizes an award of attorneys’ fees to prevailing parties in certain civil rights cases, and sets out standards for the guidance of the district courts in this Circuit to aid them in the exercise of their discretion in the…
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