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YORK v. ALABAMA STATE BD. OF EDUC.

Civ. A. No. 83-T-421-N.

631 F.Supp. 78 (1986)

Arnetta YORK, Alma D. Willis, Herbert White, Gwendolyn Webb, Helen Taylor, Barbara J. Taylor, Valeria B. Oakley, Charlie Nichols, Portia M. Lockette, Robert Likely, Ernestine Kinslow, Angela King, Paula A. Hickman, Angela M. Gordon, Salle Ann Glover, Deborah A. Flakes, Cloteal Feurtado, Palmer Deloris Curry, Augusta F. Crosby, Alfreda Bolden, Joyce R. Black, Brigitte Bartell and Ricky L. Allen, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons, Plaintiffs, v. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; John Tyson, Isabelle Thomasson, S.A. Cherry, John Fulmer, Victor Poole, Harold C. Martin, James B. Allen, Jr., and Evelyn Pratt, individually and in their official capacities as members of the Alabama State Board of Education; Wayne Teague, individually and in his capacity as State Superintendent of Education; Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama, Abe L. Hammons, Dan C. Alexander, Jr., Norman J. Berger and Ruth F. Drago, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

February 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Gregory B. Stein, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Mobile, Ala., Donald Watkins, Watkins Carter & Knight, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Major Madison, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for member of class Emlyn Wilson.

Jon A. Green and Robert Campbell, Sintz, Pike, Campbell & Duke, Mobile, Ala., for Bd. of School Com'rs of Mobile Co.; Hammons, Alexander, Berger and Drago.

Charles S. Coody and Jeffery A. Foshee, State Bd. of Educ., Robert E. Sasser, Jones, Murray, Stewart & Yarbrough, T.W. Thagard, Jr., David R. Boyd, Montgomery, Ala., for State Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This lawsuit challenged the adoption and use of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) in the Mobile County School System. It is now before the court on the plaintiffs' September 9, 1985, motion for attorney fees and expenses. Based on the evidence and briefs submitted by the parties, the court concludes that the plaintiffs are entitled to attorney fees and expenses in the amount of $227,880.14

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