JORDAN v. ALLAIN

Nos. GC82-80-WK-O, GC82-81-WK-O.

619 F.Supp. 98 (1985)

David JORDAN and Sammie Chestnut, on behalf of the Greenwood Voters League, Individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. William A. ALLAIN, Governor of Mississippi, T.H. Campbell, III, Chairperson, Bill Harpole, Vice-Chairperson, J.C. "Con" Maloney, Secretary, and their successors in office, Joint Congressional Redistricting Committee; Brad Dye, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi and President of the Senate; and Clarence B. "Buddie" Newman, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Defendants. Owen H. BROOKS, Sarah H. Johnson, Rev. Harold R. Mayberry, Willie Long, Robert E. Young, Thomas Morris, Charles McLaurin, Samuel McCray, Robert Jackson, Rev. Carl Brown, June E. Johnson, and Lee Ethel Henry, individually and on Behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. William A. ALLAIN, Governor of Mississippi, Edwin L. Pittman, successor in office to William A. "Bill" Allain, Attorney General of Mississippi; Dick Molpus, successor in office to Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Secretary of State of Mississippi, in their official capacities and as members of the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners; State Board of Election Commissioners, Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee, Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

April 1, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank R. Parker, Patricia Hanrahan, Sidney Bixler, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenville, Miss., Robert B. McDuff, University, Miss., for Brooks plaintiffs.

Alvin O. Chambliss, North Miss. Rural Legal Services, Oxford, Miss., Willie Perkins, North Miss. Rural Legal Services, Greenwood, Miss., for Jordan plaintiffs.

Edwin L. Pittman, Atty. Gen. of Miss., Jackson, Miss., Jerris Leonard, Kathleen Heenan McGuan, Washington, D.C., Hubbard T. Saunders, IV, Champ Terney, Jackson, Miss., R. Scott Levanway, Jackson, Miss., for State defendants.

Michael B. Wallace, Jackson, Miss., for Republican defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, District Judge.

The court presently has for consideration the motion of the Brooks plaintiffs,1 as prevailing parties, for an award of attorneys' fees and litigation expenses incurred in this statutory and constitutional challenge to two Mississippi congressional redistricting plans, one of which was enacted by the state legislature and the other adopted on an interim basis by the three-judge...

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