MONROE v. COUNTY BD. OF ED. OF MADISON CTY., TENN.

No. 76-2389.

583 F.2d 263 (1978)

Brenda K. MONROE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., J. Emmett Ballard, Jackson, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Bill Lann Lee, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Hewitt P. Tomlin, Jr., Jackson, Tenn., Kaydell O. Wright, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, EDWARDS, Circuit Judge, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Various aspects of this school desegregation case have been the subject of appellate review for some ten years.* The issues in the present appeal are limited to those arising out of an award of attorney fees for counsel for the plaintiffs-appellants, allowed in an order entered by the district court April 19, 1976. That allowance was for $2,500 as compensation for the period from August 1968 through March 1971, and provided...

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