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WRIGHT v. JACKSON

No. 74-1971.

522 F.2d 955 (1975)

Nathaniel B. WRIGHT, III, et al., Appellees, v. Delbert C. JACKSON et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 14, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Sutton, Washington, D. C. (C. Francis Murphy, Louis P. Robbins and Richard W. Barton, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants.

Geoffrey Judd Vitt, Alexandria, Va. (Cohen & Vitt, Alexandria, Va., William H. Allen, Michael A. Schlanger and David S. Weissbrodt, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

The questions involved in this appeal are the propriety, vel non, and the measure, of an award of fees to counsel for prisoners in a declaratory action seeking revision of the rules and procedures for disciplinary proceedings at the Federal Reformatory at Lorton, Virginia. This institution houses certain prisoners from the District of Columbia. In a prior appeal by defendant prison authorities we remanded for reconsideration because...

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