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TERRY PROPERTIES, INC. v. STANDARD OIL CO. (IND.)

No. 85-7014.

799 F.2d 1523 (1986)

TERRY PROPERTIES, INC., a Corp.; Hillcrest Corp., a Corp.; Roy Terry, an Ind.; & Rudolph Terry, an Ind., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. STANDARD OIL CO. (IND); Amoco Chemicals Corp.; the City of Roanoke, Al.; the City Council of the City of Roanoke, Al.; Henry V. Bonner, Mayor of the City of Roanoke, Al., as Mayor and Ind.; Tommy Hill, former Mayor of Roanoke, Al., as Mayor and Ind.; William E. Montgomery, as Chairman of the Utility Board and Ind.; James Lane, as Chairman of the Industrial Development Board of Roanoke, Al. and Ind.; Roy Reeves, Ind.; Earl Mannings, Ind.; Joe B. Turner, Ind.; Olin Sheppard, Ind. and as Clerk of the City of Roanoke, Al.; & Stell Benefield, Ind., Defendants-Appellees, Amoco Fabrics Co. and the Industrial Development Board of the City of Roanoke, Al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester D. Davenport, Davenport & Seay, Makila James, Harold E. Jordan, Tomas R. Lopez, Washington, D.C. for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

Grover Hankins, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Brooklyn, N.Y., Timothy Brown, Brown & Vance, Frederick A. Douglas, Leftwich, Moore & Douglas, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae MBELDEF & NAACP.

Julius LeVonne Chambers, Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City, for NAACP Legal Defense & Educ. Fund.

Edward S. Allen, Balch, Bingham, Baker, Ward, Smith, Bowman & Thagard, John P. Scott, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Theresa J. Arnold, Chicago, Ill., for Standard Oil, Amoco Chemicals & Amoco Fabrics.

John Denson, Samford, Denson, Horsley, Pettey, Martin & Barrett, Opelika, Ala., for City of Roanoke, et al.

William O. Miller, G. Stephen Parker, Robert B. Baker, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for Southeastern Legal Foundation.

Robin S. Conrad, Paula J. Connelly, Lynn M. Smelkinson, Washington, D.C., for the Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.

Before RONEY, Chief Judge, CLARK, Circuit Judge, and DOYLE, Senior District Judge.

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal from the district court's determination that they failed to prove their claims of race discrimination arising from the location of an industrial plant adjacent to their property and consequent rerouting of a road. They also appeal from the assessment of certain attorney's fees and costs against them. Cross-appellants appeal from the district court's determination that they failed to prove the counterclaim of intentional interference...

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