AYUDA, INC. v. RENO

Civ. A. No. 88-625.

885 F.Supp. 15 (1995)

AYUDA, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General of the United States, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 10, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard John Webber, Wayne Hayden Matelski, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Sandra Wilkinson, Washington, Perito & Dubuc, Paul Shearman Allen, Paul Shearman Allen & Associates, Robert Harlis Plutkin, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Carolyn Waller, Washington, DC, for Ayuda, Inc.

Richard John Webber, Wayne Hayden Matelski, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Sandra Wilkinson, Washington, Perito & Dubuc, Robert Harlis Plutkin, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Carolyn Waller, Washington, DC, for The Ethiopian Community Center, Latin American Youth Center, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, NK Doe, JH Doe, TB Doe, KAA Doe, JNU Doe.

Donald Eugene Keener, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., David J. Kline, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Edwin A. Meese, III, Alan C. Nelson, INS.

Cordia A. Strom, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, DC, for Immigration Reform Law Institute amicus curiae.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SPORKIN, District Judge.

The issue before the Court is whether Plaintiffs are required to return to Defendants interim attorneys' fees and costs in the amount of $122,440.31 awarded in 1989, plus interest, in light of the mandate and decision of the Court of Appeals in Ayuda, Inc. v. Reno, 7 F.3d 246 (D.C.Cir.1993).

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