COOPER v. PENTECOST

No. 95-60260 Summary Calendar.

77 F.3d 829 (1996)

James COOPER, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; Wayne Bowen, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; James A Plummer, Jr, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. Daisy PENTECOST, Madison County Jailor, Defendant-Appellee. Jessie Hopkins, Sheriff of Madison County; Marc Sharpe, member of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, individually and in his official capacity; Bob Dowdle, member of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, individually and in his official capacity; David H Richardson, member of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, individually and in his official capacity; Karl Banks, member of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, individually and in their official capacity; J L McCullough, member of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, individually and in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants, and John W Watkins, Member of the Board of Corrections, Individually and in his official capacity; H E Tinin, Member of the Board of Corrections, Individually and in his official capacity; Arthur W Morton, Member of the Board of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Individually and in his official capacity; Charles Young, Member of the Board of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Individually and in his official capacity; Frank Covington, Member of the Board of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Individually and in his official capacity; Lee J Edwards, Member of the Board of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Individually and in his official capacity; Sarah E Arnold, Member of the Board of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Individually and in her official capacity; Charlie Weeks, Member of the Board of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Individually and in his official capacity, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 14, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tara Bryant Walker, Central Mississippi Legal Services, Jackson, MS, for Cooper, Bowen and Plummer.

Rebecca Barge Cowan, Carl Robert Montgomery, Montgomery, Smith-Vaniz & McGraw, Jackson, MS, for Hopkins, Watkins, Tinin, Morton, Young, Covington, Edwards, Arnold, Weeks, Sharpe, Dowdle, Richardson, Banks and McCullough.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DUHÉ and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.


EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

This case involves an appeal and cross-appeal of a district court's order awarding attorneys' fees, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

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This civil rights case began in 1978, when a group of prison inmates (hereinafter "plaintiffs") in the Madison County Jail, Madison County, Mississippi, filed a class action lawsuit against Madison County...

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