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WALKER v. U.S. DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOP.

No. 95-10817.

99 F.3d 761 (1996)

Debra WALKER, Jeanette Washington, Hazel Williams, Zelma Lang, Renita Brown, Lillie Thompson, Mary Dews, Tillis Baylor, Kenneth Hogg, and Tracey Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT and Dallas Housing Authority, Defendants-Appellees, City of Dallas, Defendant-Appellant, Elizabeth K. Julian, Movant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Daniel, Laura Beth Beshara, Elizabeth K. Julian, Dallas, TX, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Thomas Mark Bondy, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, defendant-appellee.

Sam A. Lindsay, City Attorney, Edwin Armstrong Price Voss, Jr., Assistant City Attorney, Chris Gary Wittmayer, Sangeeta Sharma Kuruppillai, Assistant City Attorney, Office of the City Attorney for the City of Dallas, Dallas, TX, for City of Dallas, TX, defendant-appellant.

Edward B. Cloutman, III, Dallas, TX, for Elizabeth K. Julian, movant-appellee.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and SMITH and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

The City of Dallas ("Dallas") appeals the award of attorneys' fees in an ongoing desegregation action. We affirm in part, modify in part, and remand for entry of a revised fee order.

I.

In 1985, the plaintiffs filed a class action against the Dallas Housing Authority ("DHA") alleging that it followed a policy of consciously segregating its public housing. Eventually, the parties entered into a consent decree (the "1987...

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