U.S. v. ALLEGHENY-LUDLUM INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 76-1067.

558 F.2d 742 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ALLEGHENY-LUDLUM INDUSTRIES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. Sidney S. HARRIS et al., Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 1, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, Barry L. Goldstein, Eric Schnapper, Charles Ralston, James M. Nabrit, III, Deborah M. Greenberg, New York City, Oscar W. Adams, James K. Baker, U. W. Clemon, Birmingham, Ala., Gerald A. Smith, Kenneth Johnson, Norris C. Ramsey, Baltimore, Md., Bernard D. Marcus, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sidney Raskind, Gabrielle K. McDonald, Mark T. McDonald, Houston, Tex., for intervenors-appellants.

William K. Murray, J. R. Forman, Jr., D. Frank Davis, Joseph W. Letzer, Birmingham, Ala., Ralph L. McAfee, Anthony A. Dean, New York City, Leonard L. Scheinholtz, Jerome Powell, Walter P. DeForest, III, Patrick W. Ritchey, Carl H. Hellerstedt, Jr., Edward J. O'Connell, Joseph P. Kelly, Pittsburgh, Pa., Thomas R. Alexander, Cleveland, Ohio, S. G. Clark, Jr., David S. Dennison, Pittsburgh, Pa., G. J. Haney, Youngstown, Ohio, Bernard Kleiman, Chicago, Ill., Michael H. Gottesman, George H. Cohen, Robert M. Weinberg, Robert T. Moore, Atty., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., E. C. Perkins, Bethlehem, Pa., Jerome A. Cooper, Birmingham, Ala., Beatrice Rosenberg, Washington, D. C., Carl B. Frankel, Asst. Gen. Counsel, U.S. Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WISDOM, GEE and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

On the heels of our dismissing the would-be Harris intervenors' appeal,1 defendant steel companies move for an award of reasonable attorneys' fees as part of their costs on the appeal. The 1964 Civil Rights Act, § 706(k), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(k), provides:

In any action or proceeding under this subchapter the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as...

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