DAGGETT v. KIMMELMAN

Nos. 85-5648, 85-5668.

811 F.2d 793 (1987)

DAGGETT, George T., Plaintiff, v. KIMMELMAN, Irwin I., etc., et al., Defendants. FORSYTHE, Edwin B., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. KEAN, Thomas H., etc., et al., Defendants, James J. Florio, et al., Defendants-Intervenors, Carmen A. Orechio and Alan J. Karcher, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1987.

As Amended February 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Hellring (argued), Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein, Siegal & Greenberg, Newark, N.J., for Forsythe, et al.

Leon J. Sokol (argued), William F. Dowd (argued), Greenstone & Sokol, Hackensack, N.J., for Orechio, et al.

Andrea M. Silkowitz (argued), Deputy Atty. Gen. of N.J., Trenton, N.J., for Kean, et al.

Before WEIS and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and RE, Chief Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a final judgment of the district court awarding attorneys' fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1982). The fee award in question follows a judicial determination, in litigation initiated by plaintiffs-appellants ("appellants"), who in 1982 were the seven Republican members of Congress from New Jersey and seven citizens who resided in the districts represented...

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