CREST STREET COMMUNITY v. N.C. DEPT. OF TRANSP.

No. 85-1008.

769 F.2d 1025 (1985)

CREST STREET COMMUNITY COUNCIL, INC.; Residents of Crest Street Community; Save Our Church & Community Committee, Appellants, v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; North Carolina Board of Transportation; James E. Harrington, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Chairman of the North Carolina Board of Transportation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Calhoun, Durham, N.C. (North Cent. Legal Assistance Program on brief), for appellants.

James B. Richmond, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C. (Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

The prevailing parties in a federal administrative action involving Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 sought to recover attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 in an independent action in federal district court. The district court denied their request. We reverse.

I.

Plaintiffs represent residents of Crest Street community, a well-established, predominantly black neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina....

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