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N. A. A. C. P. v. WILMINGTON MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

No. 82-1072.

689 F.2d 1161 (1982)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Puerto Rican Civil Rights League, Inc., Older Americans Coalition, Wilmington United Neighborhoods, Brandywine Trinity Methodist Church, on behalf of their members and others similarly situated, and Raymond W. Brown, Maria Galindez, for herself and as parent and guardian for her minor children, Reynaldo Galindez and Pedro Galindez, Milagro Quinones, Denise Smokes, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated; and City of Wilmington, a municipal corporation, Appellants, v. The WILMINGTON MEDICAL CENTER, INC., and Crawford H. Greenwalt, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Joseph A. Dallas, as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1982.

As Amended September 29, 1982.

Opinion on Denial of Rehearing November 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan W. Houseman, Marilyn G. Rose, Washington, D.C., Douglas Shachtman, Wilmington, Del., for appellants.

William J. Wade, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., for appellee.

Before GIBBONS and HUNTER, Circuit Judges and POLLAK, District Judge.

Opinion on Denial of Rehearing November 8, 1982. See 693 F.2d 22.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises out of the district court's denial of an application for attorneys' fees made pursuant to the Civil Rights Attorneys Fee Awards Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, by the NAACP (plaintiffs), after trial on a claim of discrimination by the Wilmington Medical Center, Inc. (WMC). The district court...

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