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TUCKER v. SUMMERS

No. 84-3355.

784 F.2d 654 (1986)

Carole Shelby Carnes TUCKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. The Honorable Frank W. SUMMERS, et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Justices Walter F. Marcus, Jr., Fred A. Blanche, Jr., Jack C. Watson, and the Louisiana Supreme Court, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliott G. Snellings, New Orleans, La., Shelby Tucker, Oxford, England, for plaintiff-appellant, cross-appellee.

Kendall L. Vick, Patricia Nalley Bowers, Asst. Attys. Gen., William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellees.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and POLITZ and JONES, Circuit Judges.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

The sole issue presented by this appeal of litigation initiated in February of 1980 is the claim of the plaintiff-appellant to attorneys' fees under the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Based on a report of a special master, then magistrate, now district judge Marcel Livaudais, Jr., the district court denied the petition for fees. For the reasons assigned, we affirm that...

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