Legal Opinion
Nicholas Palmigiano v. J. Joseph Garrahy, Leonard Jefferson v. Bradford E. Southworth
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 3, 1980No. 79-1183, 79-1185PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
This is another round in the litigation about conditions at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Rhode Island. See Palmigiano v. Garrahy, 599 F.2d 17 (1st Cir. 1979). In this appeal the state defendants contest an award of attorney’s fees totalling $115,-483.75 made to the plaintiff prisoners under the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976 (the Fees Act), Pub.L.No. 94- 559, 90 Stat. 2641 (amending 42 U.S.C. § 1988). 1 The prisoners were represented by four lawyers: three were employed by the National Prison Project of the privately funded American Civil…
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