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WEEKS v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO.

No. 72-1075.

467 F.2d 95 (1972)

Mrs. Lorena W. WEEKS, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, Sylvia Roberts, Counsel for Lorena W. Weeks, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 11, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Roberts, Baton Rouge, La., pro se.

Jo Ann L. Chandler, San Francisco, Cal., for Public Advocates, Inc., amicus curiae.

Ruth M. Ferrell, Wilmington, Del., for Women's Equity Action League, amicus curiae.

Phineas Indritz, Acting Gen. Counsel, Marguerite Rawalt, Counsel, Arlington, Va., for NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., amicus curiae.

Mario Obledo, Alan B. Exelrod, San Francisco, Cal., for Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., amicus curiae.

Nathaniel R. Jones, Gen. Counsel, NAACP, New York City, Paul J. Spiegelman, Russell Specter, James A. Beat, Washington, D. C., for NAACP, amicus curiae.

David J. Heinsma, Vincent L. Sgrosso, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before WISDOM and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 11, 1973.

PER CURIAM:

In this appeal Mrs. Sylvia Roberts asks that the attorney's fees allowed her by the district court in the amount of $15,000 be increased to $46,800 for her successful representation of the plaintiff-appellant in Weeks v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., 5 Cir. 1969, 408 F.2d 228. A majority of this Court holds that the district court acted well...

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