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KING v. GREENBLATT

No. 74-1425.

560 F.2d 1024 (1977)

Mitchell G. KING, Jr., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Milton GREENBLATT et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen King Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Stephen R. Delinsky, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Bureau and Barbara A. H. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Appellate Section, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

John H. Henn, Boston, Mass, with whom Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, LAY, Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the award of $4,000 in attorney's fees to Mitchell B. King, Jr. whose civil rights suit to improve his conditions of confinement at the treatment center for the sexually dangerous at MCI Bridgewater culminated in two June 1974 consent decrees in his favor. On October 29, 1974, several months after the matter was concluded, the district court awarded $4,000 to King's attorney "[f]or ten hours in court and seventy...

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