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DAGGETT v. KIMMELMAN

Nos. 88-5230, 88-5231.

864 F.2d 1122 (1989)

George T. DAGGETT, v. Irwin I. KIMMELMAN, Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, Jane Burgio, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, Carmen A. Orechio, President of the Senate, Alan J. Karcher, Speaker of the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey. Edwin B. FORSYTHE, Matthew J. Rinaldo, Millicent Fenwick, Harold C. Hollenbeck, James A. Courter, Margaret S. Roukema, Christopher H. Smith, Thomas Dunn, Livio Mancino, Rev. Millard D. Birt, Rafael Fajardo, Margaret Dougherty, Maretta N. Jackson and C. Joseph Lillo v. Thomas H. KEAN, as Governor of the State of New Jersey, Irwin I. Kimmelman, as Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, and Jane Burgio, as Secretary of the State of New Jersey. James J. Florio, William J. Hughes, James J. Howard, Robert A. Roe, Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Joseph G. Minish, Frank J. Guarini, Bernard J. Dwyer, Carmine A. Orechio, President of the New Jersey Senate and Alan J. Karcher, Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, Intervenors. Edward T. Magee, Robert Morris, Matthew Grubelich, Robert M. Duphinay, Charlotte Braz, William Parkins and Kathy A. Greene, Intervenors. Appeal of NEW JERSEY STATE SENATE, Appellant in No. 88-5230. Appeal of GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NEW JERSEY, Appellant in No. 88-5231.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon J. Sokol (argued), Greenstone, Sokol, Behot & Fiorenzo, Hackensack, N.J. (Frank A. Campana, on the brief), for appellant/defendant-intervenor, the New Jersey State Senate.

William F. Dowd, Dowd & Reilly, Red Bank, N.J., for appellant/defendant-intervenor, the General Assembly of New Jersey.

Bernard Hellring (argued), Hellring Lindeman Goldstein Siegal Stern & Greenberg, Newark, N.J. (Jonathan L. Goldstein, Stephen L. Dreyfuss, of counsel), for appellees, Edwin B. Forsythe, Matthew J. Rinaldo, Millicent Fenwick, Harold C. Hollenbeck, James A. Courter, Margaret S. Roukema, Christopher H. Smith, Thomas Dunn, Livio Mancino, Rev. Millard D. Birt, Rafael Fajardo, Margaret Dougherty, Maretta N. Jackson and C. Joseph Lillo.

Before SLOVITER, GREENBERG and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

This is another, and unfortunately not the final, episode of a litigation saga that began in 1982 with the institution of a suit to challenge the New Jersey congressional reapportionment law passed that year. In this second appeal from the award of attorneys' fees to the prevailing plaintiffs we must resolve the parties' diametrically opposing interpretations of our earlier instructions on the compensability...

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