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JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 76-2072.

554 F.2d 632 (1977)

James A. JOHNSON, Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Rogers, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Jervis S. Finney, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., and Robert E. Kopp, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants.

Bill Lann Lee, New York City (Jack Greenberg, Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City, Melvyn R. Leventhal, Jackson, Miss., Kenneth L. Johnson and Johnson & Smith, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge.

The United States appeals from an order of the district court awarding attorney's fees to counsel for James A. Johnson.

Johnson, a federal government employee, alleged that he had been denied a promotion because of racial discrimination. He first sought relief through administrative channels. When this proved unsuccessful, he engaged a lawyer and brought an action under the 1972 Amendments...

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