JEFFERS v. TUCKER

No. H-C-89-004.

835 F.Supp. 1101 (1993)

M.C. JEFFERS, Al Porter, Evangeline Brown, Clyde Collins, Earl Foster, The Rev. Ellihue Gaylord, Shirley M. Harvell, Linda Shelby, J.C. Jeffries, Joseph Perry, Clinton Richardson, T.E. Patterson, Earnest Simpson, Brian Smith, and Charlie Statewright, on behalf of Themselves and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. Jim Guy TUCKER, In His Official Capacity as Governor of Arkansas and Chairman of the Arkansas Board of Apportionment; W.J. McCuen, In His Official Capacity as Secretary of State of Arkansas and Member of the Arkansas Board of Apportionment; and Winston Bryant, In His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Arkansas and Member of the Arkansas Board of Apportionment, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, E.D.

August 11, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dayna L. Cunningham, Julius L. Chambers, Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., New York City.

Don E. Glover, Dermott, AR.

Perlesta A. Hollingsworth, Hollingsworth Law Firm, P.A., Little Rock, AR.

Olly Neal Jr., Marianna, AR.

L.T. Simes II, Simes & Simes, West Helena, AR.

Heather Patrice Hogrobrooks, Marianna, AR.

Tim C. Humphries, Atty. General's Office, Little Rock, AR.

Field Kindley Wasson Jr., Chief Legal Counsel, Office of the Governor, Little Rock, AR.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Circuit Judge, EISELE, Senior District Judge, and HOWARD, District Judge.


RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Circuit Judge.

The question before us is whether we may increase the lodestar portion of the attorneys' fees previously awarded so that it reflects the plaintiffs' attorneys' risk of loss for undertaking the case on a contingent basis. In Jeffers v. Clinton, 776 F.Supp. 465, 473-74 (E.D.Ark.1991), after setting the attorneys' lodestar — that is, the product of reasonable hours expended times...

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