JONES v. AMALGAMATED WARBASSE HOUSES, INC.

No. 14, Docket 83-7181.

721 F.2d 881 (1983)

Mary JONES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMALGAMATED WARBASSE HOUSES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 14, 1983.

Certiorari Denied April 16, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Bellman and Lewis M. Steel, New York City (Steel & Bellman, P.C., Lawrence Grosberg, New York City, Fair Housing Clinic, Columbia University Law School, Karen Freeman, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ronald W. Meister, Kornstein Meister & Veisz, New York City, for defendant-appellee, Amalgamated Warbasse Houses, Inc.

Stephen M. Jacoby, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., Melvyn R. Leventhal, Deputy First Asst. Atty. Gen., Stanley A. Camhi, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees, New York State Div. of Housing and Community Renewal and Richard Berman, Com'r.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, LUMBARD and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Chief Judge:

This case requires us to decide the extent of a district court's discretion to modify an agreement as to attorneys' fees, otherwise awardable under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, which has been submitted to the court pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(e) for approval as part of a proposed settlement of a class action civil rights suit. Plaintiffs Mary Jones and other class representatives appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern...

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