West Virginians for Life, Inc. v. Smith

OPINION ON ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS

FABER, District Judge.

Pending before the court are the Motion for Attorneys’ Fees & Expenses filed by the plaintiffs on September 12, 1996, and the Supplemental Motion for Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses filed by plaintiffs on November 1,1996. Plaintiffs’ counsel, James Bopp, Jr., Bopp Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana, and William C. Porth, Robinson & McElwee, Charleston, West Virginia, submit their fee petitions under the Civil Rights Attorneys’ Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The petitions include time expended by other members of Bopp’s…