Legal Opinion
Bennie Cullens, James Gonder, Larry Cooper v. Georgia Department of Transportation
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 1994No. 93-8570PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge:
This is an attorney’s fee appeal in an employment discrimination case. Plaintiffs prevailed on some of their individual claims and were awarded fees for work on those claims, but they were denied class action status and denied fees relating to class claims. We affirm the decision awarding fees based on the individual claims but vacate the award and remand for reconsideration, under proper standards, of the amount of that award. We affirm the denial of fees for class action claims.
I. Facts
In April 1974 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged ten or…
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