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MARTIN v. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA

No. 89-7408.

911 F.2d 604 (1990)

Dr. Elizabeth Ann MARTIN, and Dr. Wilma M. Scrivner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Dr. Phyllis K. Benson, Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA, Frederick P. Whiddon, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 10, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry T. Menefee and Gregory B. Stein, Henry Brewster, Stein and Brewster, Robert S. Edington, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mitchell G. Lattof, Sr., Lattof & Gardner, P.C., Mobile, Ala., for defendant-appellee University of South Alabama.

Before COX, Circuit Judge, HILL and SMITH, Senior Circuit Judges.

EDWARD S. SMITH, Senior Circuit Judge:

Counsel for the prevailing plaintiffs in a civil rights class action contend that the district court erred when, in computing the lodestar for the award of post-judgment attorneys' fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, it (1) rejected the hourly rate determined by a Special Master and substituted an hourly rate based on the salary of federal district judges; and, (2) determined that time expended on the attorneys' fee issue should...

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