GEIER v. SUNDQUIST

No. 02-6400.

372 F.3d 784 (2004)

Rita Sanders GEIER; Patrick J. Gilpin; Ernest Terrell; Harold Sweatt; Phillip Sweatt, Individually and as Next Friend of Phillip Sweatt; Citizens and Residents of the State of Tennessee; Citizens of the United States, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Don SUNDQUIST, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: June 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis R. Donelson III (argued), Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Memphis, TN, George E. Barrett (briefed), Edmund L. Carey, Jr. (briefed) Barrett, Johnston & Parsley, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Kathleen A. Eyler (briefed), Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, TN, Richard F. Haglund III (argued), Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, TN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: COLE and COOK, Circuit Judges; SPIEGEL, District Judge.


COLE, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which SPIEGEL, D.J., joined. COOK, J. (pp. 796-98), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

OPINION

COLE, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, the Geier Plaintiffs, appeal the district court's judgment awarding them $376,587.50 in attorneys' fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 for legal services performed in connection with this civil rights action — ongoing for the past thirty-six years —...

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