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PLYLER v. EVATT

Nos. 88-7763, 89-7601.

902 F.2d 273 (1990)

Harry PLYLER, et al., (Formerly Gary Wayne Nelson, et al.), Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Parker EVATT, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Members of the South Carolina Board of Corrections, Defendants-Appellants. Harry PLYLER, et al., (Formerly Gary Wayne Nelson, et al.), Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Parker EVATT, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Members of the South Carolina Board of Corrections, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 7, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Eugene Evans, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. (Kenneth P. Woodington, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), Columbia, S.C., for defendants-appellants.

Mary Malissa Burnette (Cynthia Hall Ouzts, on brief), Gergel, Burnette, Nickles, Grant & Ouzts, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and SPENCER, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

The Commissioner of the South Carolina Department of Corrections and members of the South Carolina Board of Corrections (hereinafter collectively "SCDC") appeal from several rulings of the district court relating to an award of attorneys' fees in a class action suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Specifically, SCDC challenges (1) the hourly rates set for five of the twelve attorneys who represented the plaintiff class of prisoners; (2) the award...

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