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KIMBROUGH v. ARKANSAS ACTIVITIES ASS'N

No. 77-1715.

574 F.2d 423 (1978)

Mark KIMBROUGH, Appellant, v. ARKANSAS ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION, a private non-profit corporation, and Lee Cassiday, Executive Director, and the Board of Directors of the Schools of the Little Rock School District, Paul Fair, Superintendent of Schools, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 18, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Walker, Walker, Kaplan & Mays, Little Rock, Ark., Sheila Phillips, Research Asst., filed brief for appellant.

Michael W. Mitchell, Little Rock, Ark., filed brief for appellee Ark. Activities Assn.

Robert V. Light, Little Rock, Ark., filed brief for appellee, Little Rock School Dist.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and BECKER, Senior District Judge.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Mark Kimbrough appeals from the District Court's denial of his motion for an award of attorney's fees pursuant to the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988. We reverse and remand.

Kimbrough, a black high school student, brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 in July, 1976, challenging a ruling by the Arkansas Activities Association (AAA...

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