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N.A.A.C.P. DETROIT BRANCH v. D.P.O.A.

Nos. 92-2557, 92-2558.

46 F.3d 528 (1995)

N.A.A.C.P., DETROIT BRANCH; The Guardians, Inc.; Brady Bruenton; Cynthia Martin; Hilton Napoleon; Sharron Randolph; Betty T. Roland; Grant Battle; Cynthia Cheatom; Evin Fobbs; John H. Hawkins; Helen Poelinitz, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (D.P.O.A.), Defendant, City of Detroit; Coleman A. Young, Mayor; Detroit Police Department; Detroit Board of Police Commissioners; William Hart, Chief, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, David Watroba, President; William G. Milliken, Governor; The Michigan Employment Relations Commission, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas I. Atkins (argued and briefed), Brooklyn, NY, Jeanne Mirer (briefed), Barnhart & Mirer, Gary A. Benjamin, Detroit, MI, for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

Allan D. Sobel, Casimir J. Swastek, Rubenstein & Plotkin, Southfield, MI, for Detroit Police Officers Ass'n and David Watroba.

Donald Pailen, Dennis Burnett, Terri L. Renshaw, City of Detroit Law Dept., Detroit, MI, Daniel B. Edelman (argued and briefed), Yablonski, Both & Edelman, Washington, DC, for City of Detroit, Coleman A. Young, Detroit Police Dept., Detroit Bd. of Police Com'rs and William Hart.

Frank J. Kelley, Office of Atty. Gen., Appellate Div., Lansing, MI, for William G. Milliken and Mich. Employment Relations Com'n.

Before MERRITT, Chief Judge; and NELSON and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.

MERRITT, Chief Judge.

In this appeal, the NAACP objects to a district court award of $11,320 in attorneys' fees as unreasonably low. The City of Detroit cross-appeals, challenging the validity of the award. Even though plaintiffs eventually lost this fifteen-year-old, civil rights case on the merits, they now claim an entitlement to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 attorneys' fees because of certain interim orders, later reversed, which were beneficial to them. The interim orders...

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