Timothy PIGFORD, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Tom VILSACK, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendant.
Cecil Brewington, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Tom Vilsack, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendant.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 12, 2009.
May 12, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Anthony Herman, Covington & Burling, David A. Branch, Law Office of David A. Branch, Richard Talbot Seymour, Law Office of Richard T. Seymour, PLLC, Jacob A. Stein, Stein, Mitchell & Mezines, LLP, Barbara Kim Kagan, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Mona Lyons, Law Office of Mona Lyons, Phillip L. Fraas, Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP, Anurag Varma, Patton Boggs LLP, David U. Fierst, Stein, Mitchell & Mezines, LLP, David Joseph Frantz, Conlon, Frantz & Phelan, LLP, Caroline Lewis Wolverton, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Joshua A. Doan, Washington, DC, Othello C. Cross, Cross, Kearney & McKissic, Jesse L. Kearney, Pine Bluff, AR, Charles Jerome Ware, Charles Jerome Ware, P.A., Columbia, MD, Stephon J. Bowens, Blanchard, Jenkins, Miller, Lewis and Styers, P.A., Raleigh, NC, Marcus B. Jimison, NCCU School of Law, Land Loss prevention Project, Durham, NC, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Rose M. Sanders, Chestnut Sanders Sanders & Pettaway, Selma, AL, for Plaintiffs.
Andrea Newmark, Daniel Edward Bensing, Herbert E. Forrest, Michael Sitcov, Marsha Stelson Edney, U.S. Department of Justice, Terry Marcus Henry, Joel L. McElvain, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Elizabeth Goitein, Elbert Lin, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC, for Defendants.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.
OPINION AND ORDER
PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on a motion for attorneys' fees, costs and expenses by Covington & Burling LLP ("Covington"), counsel for class member Robert E. Holmes, Sr. ("Mot."); an opposition to Covington's motion by the United States Department of Agriculture ("Opp."); Covington's reply ("Reply"), and USDA's surreply ("Surreply").
I. BACKGROUND
On October 1, 2007, "Mr...
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