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WILLIAMSBURG FAIR HOUS. COMM. v. ROSS-RODNEY HOUS.

No. 76 Civ. 2125 (CHT).

599 F.Supp. 509 (1984)

WILLIAMSBURG FAIR HOUSING COMMITTEE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ROSS-RODNEY HOUSING CORP. and Kraus Management, Inc., Defendants. UNITED JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF WILLIAMSBURG, INC., et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. KENT VILLAGE HOUSING CO., INC., et al., Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

October 26, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Community Action for Legal Services, Inc., and Teitelbaum & Hiller, P.C., New York City, for plaintiffs; Cesar A. Perales, Hector W. Soto, Kenneth Kimerling; Dale Johnson; Herbert Teitelbaum, Peter Paden, New York City, of counsel.

Paskus, Gordon & Hyman, New York City, for Ross-Rodney Housing Corp. and Kraus Management, Inc.; Philip H. Schaeffer, Craig R. Michel, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

TENNEY, District Judge.

Pending before this Court is plaintiffs' motion for attorneys' fees under the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1982) ("§ 1988"). The underlying case is a class action1 that challenged the constitutionality of certain rental practices in five housing developments in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York. The suit resulted in a Consent Decree, developed...

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