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NAT. ASS'N OF FARMWORKER ORGANIZATIONS v. MARSHALL

No. 78-1666.

628 F.2d 23 (1979)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FARMWORKER ORGANIZATIONS, et al., Appellants, v. F. Ray MARSHALL, Individually and as Secretary of the United States Department of Labor, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 19, 1979.

As Amended November 23, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Semmel with whom John W. Garland and L. Thomas Galloway, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Robert S. Greenspan, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Earl J. Silbert, U.S. Atty., and William Kanter, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Also Paul Blankenstein and Leonard Schaitman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., entered appearance, for appellees.

Before MacKINNON and WILKEY, Circuit Judges, and GORDON, United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

Appellants seek reversal of the District Court's denial of their petition for attorneys' fees following their successful class-action suit against the Secretary of Labor that resulted in the release of 12 million dollars in federal CETA grants that had been targeted for farmworker employment training and opportunities by Congress in 29 U.S.C. § 873, § 801, et seq. The...

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