Legal Opinion
Fairley v. Patterson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 1, 1974No. 73-1566PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is the consolidation of two suits from the district court, the first involving reapportionment and the second a request for attorneys’ fees and expenses in the first. The reapportionment suit is brought under the fourteenth and twenty-sixth amendments to the United States Constitution challenging the district court’s approval of the exclusion by county officials of a “class” of college students from the reapportionment of Forrest County, Mississippi. In the second, error is charged the district court by the appellees in the granting of *601attorneys’ fees and by…
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