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JORDAN v. FUSARI

No. 582, Docket 73-2364.

496 F.2d 646 (1974)

Sabine D. JORDAN, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Appellees, v. Jack A. FUSARI, Commissioner of Labor and Administrator of Unemployment Compensation Act of the State of Connecticut, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 29, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Wasik, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert K. Killian, Atty. Gen., Employment Security Div., Labor Dept., Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for appellant.

Jane M. Picker, Cleveland, Ohio (Charles E. Guerrier, Cleveland, Ohio; Eugene N. Sosnoff, Sosnoff, Cooper & Whitney, New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for appellees.

Irving Jaffe, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen.; Morton Hollander and Leonard Schaitman, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice; William J. Kilberg, Sol. of Labor; Alfred G. Albert, Laurie M. Streeter, H. A. Kelley, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Labor, amicus curiae.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and FEINBERG and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the tail end of what might have been major litigation over the constitutionality of the State of Connecticut's policy of denying unemployment compensation to thousands of women in the months before and after childbirth. Commendably, the suit has been settled, and the only question on appeal is the propriety of an award of attorneys' fees to counsel for plaintiffs by order of the United States District Court for the District...

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