PIGFORD v. SCHAFER

Civil Action Nos. 97-1978 (PLF), 98-1693.

536 F.Supp.2d 1 (2008)

Timothy PIGFORD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Edward T. SCHAFER, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendant. Cecil Brewington, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Edward T. Schafer, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

February 20, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander John Pires, Jr., Conlon, Frantz, Phelan & Pires, Anthony Herman, Covington & Burling, David A. Branch, Law Office of David A. Branch, Jacob A. Stein, Stein, Mitchell & Mezines, Richard Talbot Seymour, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Mona Lyons, Law Office of Mona Lyons, Caroline Lewis Wolverton, U.S. Department of Justice, Phillip L. Fraas, David Joseph Frantz, Conlon, Frantz, Phelan & Pires, Washington, DC, Charles Jerome Ware, Charles Jerome Ware, P.A., Columbia, MD, J.L. Chestnut, Jr., Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Pettaway, Campbell & Albright, Selma, AL, Stephon J. Bowen, Blanchard, Jenkins, Miller, Lewis and Styers, P.A., Raleigh, NC, Marcus B. Jimison, NCCU School of Law, Durham, NC, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Jesse L. Kearney, Othello C. Cross, Cross, Kearney & McKissic, Pine Bluff, AR for Plaintiffs.

Elizabeth Goitein, Michael Sitcov, Terry Marcus Henry, Joel L. McElvain, Elbert Lin, Marsha Stelson Edney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendant.


OPINION

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on two motions to enforce the Consent Decree governing the settlement of this case. The first motion is brought by class members George Roberts and Ernest and Ruth Bulks. The second is brought by the estates of class members Robert and Jessie Howard.2 Because the two motions raise essentially the same issues, the Court will address them together...

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