Legal Opinion
Geier v. Sundquist
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 18, 2004No. 02-6400PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J., joined by Spiegel, D.J.,
COOK, J. (pp. 796-98), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
COLE, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, the Geier Plaintiffs, appeal the district court’s judgment awarding them $376,587.50 in attorneys’ fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 for legal services performed in connection with this civil rights action — ongoing for the past thirty-six years — which led to the desegregation of Tennessee’s public higher education system. The Geier Plaintiffs contend that the district court abused its discretion in: (1) declining to award fees pursuant to the “common fund”/“common benefit” method; (2)…
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