Legal Opinion
Mitchell G. King, Jr. v. Milton Greenblatt
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 15, 1977No. 74-1425PublishedCited by 218 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the award of $4,000 in attorney’s fees to Mitchell B. King, Jr. whose civil rights suit to improve his conditions of confinement at the treatment center for the sexually dangerous at MCI Bridgewater culminated in two June 1974 consent decrees in his favor. On October 29, 1974, several months after the matter was concluded, the district court awarded $4,000 to King’s attorney “[f]or ten hours in court and seventy hours of preparation” at a rate of $50 per hour. Defendants — state officials acting in their official capacities — appealed…
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3Cited by218 opinions
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