UNDERWOOD v. PIERCE

No. 83-5773.

802 F.2d 1107 (1986)

Myrna UNDERWOOD, Sheila Fazande, Annie Johnson, Jerome Smith, Cora Ewers, Frances Jardin, Lura R. Stentz, Charlotte West, Aritisha McGee, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Samuel R. PIERCE, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

October 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary S. Burdick, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Inc., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

James R. Madison, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco, Cal., for amicus curiae.

Sheila Lieber, Robert Greenspan, Merril Hirsh, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant.

Before HUG and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and CARROLL, District Judge.


ORDER

The opinion appearing at 761 F.2d 1342 is amended as follows: Section VI, commencing on page 1347, is modified by retaining the first paragraph, eliminating the remainder of the section, and substituting the following:

The Supreme Court recently has expressed caution as to the use of multipliers in calculating reasonable attorneys' fees. Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air,

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