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GAINES v. DOUGHERTY COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 84-8450.

775 F.2d 1565 (1985)

Shirley GAINES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DOUGHERTY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 15, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.B. King, Albany, Ga., Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

J.W. Walters, County Atty., Albany, Ga., for defendants-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and VANCE, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

We are nearing, hopefully, the end of a twenty-three-year saga culminating in the desegregation of schools in Dougherty County, Georgia. At issue today is the proper calculation of attorneys' fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1982).

I.

This case was initiated in 1963 to bring an end to the de jure segregation of the Dougherty County school system.1 When the...

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