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• Title: Oliver V. Kalamazoo Board Of Education
• Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
• Release Date : January 25, 1978
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 64 KB

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This is an appeal by the Michigan State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction from an order of the district court that they pay plaintiffs' attorneys' fees in the amount of $357,029.50 arising from the litigation required to desegregate the Kalamazoo, Michigan, public schools.*fn1 The $357,029.50 amount was calculated by subtracting $150,037.50, paid by the Kalamazoo Board of Education pursuant to a settlement, from $507,067, the total attorneys' fees due according to the district court's figuring. The $507,067 amount was calculated by multiplying the number of hours*fn2 spent by each of the plaintiffs' attorneys by the hourly rate found to be reasonable*fn3 for each respective attorney and by further multiplying the amounts so calculated by a factor of two for the four principal plaintiffs' attorneys.*fn4 Without using this multiplier for these four attorneys, the total would have been $283,925, rather than $507,067. The multiplier was used at plaintiffs' request as a bonus to compensate the attorneys for vindicating important but often unpopular constitutional rights. The district court analogized to antitrust cases in which successful plaintiffs' attorneys often recover their normal hourly rate multiplied by some factor. The district court also ordered appellants to pay $15,000 for the volunteer paralegal services of one of the plaintiffs in the law suit.

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