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COULTER v. STATE OF TENN.

No. 85-5109.

805 F.2d 146 (1986)

Mary Lucille COULTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF TENNESSEE; Department of Transportation of the State of Tennessee, Department of Personnel of the State of Tennessee; and Darrell D. Akins, Commissioner of the Department of Personnel, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Belton, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., Barry L. Goldstein (argued), Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael Lee Parsons, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., Diane Stamey (argued), for defendants-appellees.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, and MERRITT and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 18, 1986.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This is an attorney fee appeal arising from a Title VII case. Robert Belton, a Vanderbilt University law professor who teaches in the employment discrimination field, was associated by another lawyer as co-counsel for a plaintiff who ultimately won her case. Mr. Belton challenges the District Court's order reducing his separate attorney fee award against the losing defendants...

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