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STUDENT PUBLIC INT. RES. GROUP OF NEW JERSEY, INC. v. AT & T BELL LAB.

Nos. 86-5895, 86-5927.

842 F.2d 1436 (1988)

STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP OF NEW JERSEY, INC. and Friends of the Earth, Appellants in 86-5927, v. AT & T BELL LABORATORIES, Appellants in 86-5895.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 24, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce J. Terris (argued), Karen H. Edgecombe, Terris, Edgecombe, Hecker & Wayne, Washington, D.C., Michael Gordon, Gordon & Gordon, P.A., West Orange, N.J., for appellants in 86-5927.

Joseph A. Hoffman (argued), Asst. Gen. Counsel, American Tel. & Tel. Co., Berkely Heights, N.J., Steven A. Tasher, John P. Dean, Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine, Washington, D.C., for appellants in 86-5895.

Before BECKER and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges, and FARNAN, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This case, which involves an appeal and cross appeal from an order of the district court awarding counsel fees to prevailing parties (two public interest groups) pursuant to the fee shifting provisions of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., 1365(d) (1982), raises the interesting and difficult question (on which the circuits are sharply divided) of how to calculate the counsel fees for attorneys...

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