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VECCHIONE v. WOHLGEMUTH

Civ. A. No. 73-162.

481 F.Supp. 776 (1979)

Elvira VECCHIONE, Plaintiff, v. Helene WOHLGEMUTH et al. Walter BURESS, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Frank BEAL et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 11, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff, Elvira Vecchione.

David L. Ferleger, Herbert Newberg, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff-intervenor Walter Buress.

Robert Hoffman, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I. Preliminary Statement

This opinion will consider a motion for counsel fees pursuant to the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, in a civil rights case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.1 The history of this litigation has been chronicled in three opinions: Vecchione v. Wohlgemuth, 377 F.Supp. 1361...

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