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DOTSON v. CITY OF INDIANOLA, MISS.

No. GC80-220-WK-O.

639 F.Supp. 1056 (1986)

Nelson DOTSON, Ruthie Mae Moton, Edna Battle, Myron Harris, Albert Matthews, John Richardson, Robert Kent, Rosianna Hazlett, Dudley Grace, Charlie Tillis, John Chance, Frank Walker, Girter Walker, William Steen, Belton Johnson, and Ellis Wyms, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF INDIANOLA, MISS., Phillip Fratesi, Gary L. Auston, Charlotte H. Buchanan, G. Clark Johnson, W. Harold Manning, and James D. Robinson, in their official capacities as respectively the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Indianola, Miss., defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

July 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Victor McTeer, Greenville, Miss., Sidney Bixler, Washington, D.C., Carver Randle, Indianola, Miss., Morton Stavis and Randolph Scott-McLaughlin, New York City, A. Spencer Gilbert, III, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

W. Dean Belk, Indianola, Miss., T. Hal Freeland, III, Oxford, Miss., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

KEADY, Senior District Judge.

This cause was this day presented upon the affidavits of attorneys for both sides, statements of counsel in chambers, and interrogation by the court of all attorneys who were present representing the parties and their respective interests with regard to the claim for attorneys' fees and expenses submitted by plaintiffs in the sum of $337,689 claimed as fees for seven attorneys engaged to prosecute the...

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