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BLY v. McLEOD

No. 77-2371.

605 F.2d 134 (1979)

Robert S. BLY, Thomas A. Bryson, Benjamin M. Gimarc, Paul Mark Henrichs and Paul E. Peterson, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellees, v. Daniel R. McLEOD, Attorney General of South Carolina, Ruben L. Grey, Edgar L. Morris, Mrs. Margaret Townsend, and Mrs. G. P. Callison, as members of the State Election Commission, James B. Ellsior, Executive Director of the South Carolina Election Commission, S. H. Riddle, David O. Smith, and Ernest White, as Commissioners of Election for Richland County and as representatives of all Commissioners of Election of South Carolina, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Eckstrom, Staff Atty., Columbia, S.C. (Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Treva G. Ashworth, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellants.

Laughlin McDonald, Atlanta, Ga. (Neil Bradley, H. Christopher Coates, Atlanta, Ga., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

The state defendants appeal from the district court's order awarding attorneys' fees and costs to plaintiffs as prevailing parties pursuant to the Civil Rights Attorneys' Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, § 14(e) as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973l (e),1 and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d).

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