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NORTHCROSS v. BOARD OF ED. OF MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS

Nos. 78-1289 to 78-1291, 78-1458 and 78-1459.

611 F.2d 624 (1979)

Deborah A. NORTHCROSS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants, and City of Memphis et al., Added Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants. Deborah A. NORTHCROSS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1979.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman J. Chachkin, Washington, D. C., G. Philip Arnold, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellants cross-appellees in Nos. 78-1289 to 78-1291.

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Bill Lann Lee, New York City, Louis R. Lucas, Richard B. Fields, William E. Caldwell, Ratner, Sugarmon, Lucas & Henderson, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellants cross-appellees in all cases.

Ernest Kelly, Jr., Cobb, Edwards, Hamlet, Nichol & Woodall, Memphis, Tenn., for Board of Education.

Clifford D. Pierce, Jr., City Atty., Arthur J. Shea, Charles V. Holmes, Memphis, Tenn., Frierson M. Graves, Jr., City Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for City of Memphis.

Before WEICK and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

These appeals challenge the award of fees made by the district court in the course of the Memphis school desegregation case. In this opinion, the Court will address a few of the remaining legal controversies concerning the proper application and interpretation of 42 U.S.C. § 1988, the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976, which authorizes an award of attorneys' fees to prevailing parties in certain civil rights cases, and...

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