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AM. FED. OF GOV. EMP., LOCAL 3882 v. FLRA

No. 88-1375.

994 F.2d 20 (1993)

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, LOCAL 3882, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY, Respondent, United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin R. Cohen, with whom Mark D. Roth was on the brief, for petitioner.

Wendy B. Bader, Atty., Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), with whom David M. Smith, Sol., and William R. Tobey, Deputy Sol., FLRA were on the brief, for respondent.

Marc Richman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and William Kanter, Atty., Dept. of Justice were on the brief for intervenor.

Before MIKVA, Chief Judge; SILBERMAN and BUCKLEY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Chief Judge:

Petitioner, the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 3882, moves under the Back Pay Act for attorneys' fees as compensation for the time it spent litigating the proper method of calculating a previous fee award. We hold that such "fees for fees" are available under the Back Pay Act.

I. BACKGROUND

The Federal Labor Relations Authority ("FLRA") determined...

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