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LIBERLES v. DANIEL

No. 73 C 3217.

619 F.Supp. 1016 (1985)

Max LIBERLES, As President of and on Behalf of the Illinois Union of Social Service Employees, American Federation of State and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Alice Allen, and All Those Persons Listed in Appendix A of the Complaint (Sub-Class A), Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Wilhelmena Ashby and All Other Persons Listed in Appendix B of the Complaint (Sub-Class B), Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Dorothy Bently, and All the Persons Listed in Appendix C of the Complaint, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Persons Similarly Situated, Catherine Alexander, and Other Persons Listed in Appendix D of the Complaint, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. David L. DANIEL, Director of the Cook County Department of Public Aid, George Dunne, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Joseph M. Solon, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission of Cook County, Joel Edelman, Director of the State of Illinois Department of Public Aid, Nolan B. Jones, Director of the State of Illinois Department of Personnel, Defendants.

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

July 31, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Galland, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Barbara L. Greenspan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

After eleven years of litigation, the class in this Title VII case was awarded and has been paid a judgment of more than $13 million — one of the largest race discrimination money judgments ever paid in this country. Presently before the Court is the petition of plaintiffs' counsel ("petitioners") for attorney's fees and costs. For the reasons set forth below, we find that petitioners are entitled...

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