Coalition to Save Our Children v. State Board of Education of Delaware

OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Senior District Judge.

Pending before the Court is a fee petition in a school desegregation case. Plaintiff is the Coalition to Save Our Children (“plaintiff”). Defendants are the Red Clay School District, Brandywine School District, Christina School District, Colonial School District, and the State Board of Education. In opposing plaintiff's $650,000 fee petition, Red Clay School District (“Red Clay” or “defendant”) asserts: 1) many of plaintiff’s billable hours unnecessarily “overlap”; and 2) plaintiff engaged in unnecessary work. The fee petition has generated…