FANTROY v. GREATER ST. LOUIS LABOR COUNCIL

No. 78-1101C(4).

511 F.Supp. 70 (1980)

Fonda FANTROY et al., Plaintiffs, v. GREATER ST. LOUIS LABOR COUNCIL, AFL-CIO et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.

October 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Marshall, Marshall, Littman & Ragland, St. Louis, Mo., Baker Armstrong Smith, Atlanta, Ga., Thomas J. Brackett, Herndon, Va., for plaintiffs.

Clyde E. Craig, Wiley, Craig, Armbruster, Wilburn & Mills, St. Louis, Mo., James G. Walsh, Jr., Jolley, Moran, Walsh, Hager & Gordon, Kansas City, Mo., for intervenor-defendant.

Ward Fickie, Biggs, Casserly, Barnes, Fickie & Wolf, St. Louis, Mo., for Lloyd George, Ray Rabadeux, James O'Connor, Dorothy Steinman and Elmer Steinman.

William H. Bartley, John H. Goffstein, Bartley, Goffstein, Bollato & Lange, St. Louis, Mo., for Torpea, Mantia, Leber, Bowman and Pretti.

Kurt Breeze, Jerome A. Diekemper, Cary Hammond, Richard Shinners, Diekemper, Hammond & Shinners, St. Louis, Mo., for Betsy, Ferrara, Findlay, Gehrs, Hatton, Houston, Jersa, Kenny, Kramer, Marsh, Meyer, Murawski, Burrows, Spanberger, Stocker, Timmerberg, Young Dist. No. 9 and Local Lodge 41, IAMAW.

Robert Dierker, Asst. City Counselor, St. Louis, Mo., for Moran, Craft, Camp, Griggs and Farris.

John M. Hessel, Evans, Hoemeke & Casey, St. Louis, Mo., for Kenneth Bisso.

Joseph M. Kortenhof, Amy Reichman, Kortenhof & Ely, St. Louis, Mo., for Charles Jarnigan.

Jerry J. Murphy, St. Louis, Mo., for Leo Whitrock.

Prudence W. Kramer, Sommers & Holloran, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., for Davis.

Gary Hammond, Diekemper, Hammond & Shinners, St. Louis, Mo., for Been, Gault, Hickey, Kelley, Mosley, Waldman, St. Louis Labor Council, Bowman, Leber, Mantia, Pretti and Torpea.

Kurt D. Breeze, Diekemper, Hammond & Shinners, St. Louis, Mo., for Self, Hartzell, Becker and Pruneau.

Daniel J. Popeo, Paul D. Kamenar and Dan Bensing, The Washington Legal Foundation, Dan M. Burt, The Capital Legal Foundation, Washington, D. C., John M. Cannon, Mid-America Legal Foundation, Chicago, Ill., Wilkes Robinson, The Great Plains Legal Foundation, Kansas City, Mo., Wayne T. Elliott, Southeastern Legal Foundation, Atlanta, Ga., amicus curiae.


MEMORANDUM

HUNGATE, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court following a hearing on September 10, 1980, on the parties' motions related to attorneys' fees, expenses, and costs.

First, plaintiffs move the Court to stay any determination of costs, expenses, or fees pending appeal.

Under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, an award of attorneys' fees, as a reasonable part of the costs, is inextricably related to the merits of a civil rights claim...

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