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MURRAY v. WEINBERGER

No. 83-1680.

741 F.2d 1423 (1984)

Idella MURRAY v. Casper WEINBERGER, Secretary of Defense, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 24, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Francis Flynn, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Wiley A. Branton, with whom Roma J. Stewart, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before WILKEY and WALD, Circuit Judges, and McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILKEY.

WILKEY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court awarding attorney's fees to a prevailing plaintiff in a Title VII suit which was brought against the U.S. Secretary of Defense. The appellant contends that the district court abused its discretion by increasing the lodestar figures for the plaintiff's attorneys by 50 to 80 percent for the factors of quality of representation, risk...

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