Legal Opinion
Davis v. Board of School Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 4, 1976No. 75-1919PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELL, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiff class in this school case is here contending that the award by the district court of $38,000 as attorneys’ fees for their counsel was insufficient.
This is the second appeal of the attorneys’ fees phase of this litigation. Davis v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 5 Cir., 1974, 496 F.2d 1181.1 We held the prior appeal pending decision by the Supreme Court in Bradley v. School Bd. of City of Richmond, 1974, 416 U.S. 696, 94 S.Ct. 2006, 40 L.Ed.2d 476, and remanded for further consideration by the district court in light of that decision. The…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Bradley v. School Bd. of RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Davis v. Board of School Comm'rs of Mobile Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Carter v. West Feliciana Parish School BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Campbell v. GreenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
- Birdie Mae Davis, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, Edwin Foster, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, James E. Buskey v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Birdie Mae Davis, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, James E. Buskey, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile CountyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by65 opinions
- Mattie Norman, Clara Marshall, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. The Housing Authority of the City of MontgomeryCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Dolores J. Copeland, Individually and on Behalf of the Class of All Others Similarly Situated v. F. Ray Marshall, Secretary of LaborCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
- William Knighton, Cross-Appellant v. John C. Watkins, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Copper Liquor, Inc., Robert Earl Basham, Jr., or the Estate of Harold Letcher, Deceased, Cross-Appellant v. Adolph Coors Company, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Rita Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross v. The State of Mississippi, Defendants-Appellants-CrossCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
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