United States Sixth Circuit

In a suit for attorney's fees in connection with a 36-year long civil rights action, the court rejected plaintiff-s claims the lower court erred in failing to apply the "common fund"/"common benefit" method, and that it applied a loadstar figure that was below market rate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2004
• Published 06/18/2004

Judges

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

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• 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.


• For Appellees:
  
• 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.