LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AM. CITIZENS v. ROSCOE ISD

No. 96-10951.

119 F.3d 1228 (1997)

LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS # 4552 (LULAC), Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROSCOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT; Larry Williams; Larry Willman; Daylon Althof; Freddy Freeman; James R. Watts, Sr.; Randy Whorton; Jose Villafranca, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose Garza, Austin, TX, Rolando Leo Rios, San Antonio, TX, Judith A. Sanders-Castro, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Charles Eric Jones, Jr., Sweetwater, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SMITH, BARKSDALE and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.


BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

The League of United Latin American Citizens # 4552 ("LULAC") contends that the district court erred in calculating the amount of attorneys' fees and costs awarded in this Voting Rights Act case. LULAC complains that the district court (1) erroneously reduced the number of hours reasonably expended; (2) assigned an hourly rate upon which fees were calculated that is not supported by the record; (3) erroneously failed to make a separate award...

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