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MERIWETHER v. COUGHLIN

No. 80 Civ. 4712(CES).

727 F.Supp. 823 (1989)

Charles MERIWETHER, Jr., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Charles Scully, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, and David R. Harris, Ex-Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 13, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle by Eliot Lauer, Diane da Cunha and Daniel J. O'Brien, New York City, for plaintiff.

Attorney General of the State of N.Y. by Barbara B. Butler and Charles F. Sanders, New York City, for defendants.

STEWART, District Judge:

As this action approaches completion having been litigated on the merits on both the trial and appellate levels, this court must decide three remaining issues:

1. plaintiffs' application for attorneys' fees to the district court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 ("section 1988");1

2. plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees' (hereinafter "plaintiffs") application for attorneys' fees to the Second Circuit...

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