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ROGERS v. OKIN

No. 86-1777.

821 F.2d 22 (1987)

Rubie ROGERS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Robert OKIN, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne E. Durrell, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief for defendants, appellants.

Marshall Simonds and Richard W. Cole with whom Stahlin and Bergstresser, Inc., Boston, Mass., was on brief for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before COFFIN, BOWNES and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This is the fee tail of a very long dachshund of civil rights litigation involving mental patients at a state hospital, which began in 1975 and in due course involved all three levels of federal courts as well as the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.1 The merits having at last been resolved, the present issue is what fees and costs, if any at all, should be paid counsel...

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