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KELLEY v. METROPOLITAN COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

Nos. 83-5175, 83-5243.

773 F.2d 677 (1985)

Robert W. KELLEY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. METROPOLITAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., Richard H. Dinkins, Williams & Dinkins, Nashville, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, Charles Ralston (argued), James M. Nabrit, III, Theodore Shaw, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

William R. Willis, Jr. (argued), Marian Harrison, Willis & Knight, W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. of Tenn., Frank Scanlon, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge; ENGEL, KEITH, KENNEDY, MARTIN, CONTIE, KRUPANSKY, WELLFORD and MILBURN, Circuit Judges; and EDWARDS and CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judges.

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Robert W. Kelley and the class he represents appealed and defendant Metropolitan County Board of Education (Board) cross-appealed the district court's award of attorney's fees in this school desegregation case.

Commencing on the heels of the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), the instant case has spawned volumes of court opinions...

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