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RICHARD v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

No. 78 C 3992.

519 F.Supp. 924 (1979)

J. RICHARD and Sally Dema, Plaintiffs, v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

December 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon R. Waxman, Robert K. Mayer, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Mary Rigdon, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Mikal Frey, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM

LEIGHTON, District Judge.

In this Freedom of Information Act case, 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B), a pleading has been filed stating that it is "Plaintiffs' Petition for the Award of Attorney's Fees." Despite its caption, the petition is for relief which ordinarily would benefit Shelly Waxman, the lawyer for the plaintiffs who appeared in court. Compare Regalado v. Johnson, 79 F.R.D. 447, 451 (1978). This fact has been recognized in those...

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