Nazareth GATES et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, and
United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, Appellee,
v.
John COLLIER et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 14, 1977.
September 14, 1977.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen., P. Roger Googe, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.
Frank R. Parker, III, Jackson, Miss., Roy S. Haber, Boulder, Colo., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.
Shawn F. Moore, Walter W. Barnett, Jessica Dunsay Silver, Attys., J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., for plaintiff-intervenor, appellee.
Before COLEMAN, GOLDBERG and GEE, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
GEE, Circuit Judge:
This is, we may hope, the last appearance of this lengthy litigation challenging prison conditions in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.1 We are here concerned only with the award of attorneys' fees. This appeal is from the latest efforts of the district court to follow the shifting signposts in this uncharted area. Following our instructions to reconsider attorneys' fees...
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