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T.Y. BY PETTY v. BD. OF CTY. COM'RS SHAWNEE CTY.

Civil A. No. 94-4079-DES.

912 F.Supp. 1416 (1995)

T.Y., a minor, by her next friend, Lynette PETTY, B.A., a minor, by his next friend, P.C., D.S., a minor by his next friends, A.M. and Lynette Petty, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF the COUNTY OF SHAWNEE; Donald J. Cooper, Chairman, Victor W. Miller, Vice-Chairman, Winifred Kingman, member of the Shawnee County Commission, in their official capacities; Earl Hindman, Director of the Shawnee County Department of Corrections, in his official capacity; Gary Bayens, Administrator of Shawnee County Youth Center, in his official capacity, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF KANSAS, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND REHABILITATION SERVICES, and Donna L. Whiteman, the Secretary of Social and Rehabilitation Services, in her official capacity; Board of Education-Unified School District 501, Shawnee County, Kansas, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

December 29, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry R. Rute, Kansas Legal Services, Inc., Topeka, KS, Claudia J. York, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, MO, Charles J. Hyland, Sprint Communications Company L.P., Law Department, Kansas City, MO, and Judith A. Jones, Hiawatha, KS, for plaintiffs Lynette Petty.

Mark L. Bennett, Jr., Ann L. Hoover, Bennett & Dillon, Topeka, KS, Susana L. Valdovinos, and Sandra L. Jacquot, Office of the County Counselor, Shawnee County, Kansas, Topeka, KS, for County of Shawnee, Kan., Donald J. Cooper, Victor W. Miller, Winifred Kingman, Earl Hindman, and Gary (NMI) Bayens.

Michael George, Kenneth R. Smith, Kansas Department of SRS, Topeka, KS, for Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, and Donna L. Whiteman.

John D. Ensley and Arthur E. Palmer, Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds & Palmer, Topeka, KS, for Unified School District 501, Topeka.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SAFFELS, Senior District Judge.

This matter is before the court on the plaintiffs' motion for attorney's fees and costs (Doc. 120).

I. BACKGROUND

The plaintiffs filed this action on May 19, 1994, as a class action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on June 3, 1994. The plaintiffs' suit challenged the conditions of confinement at the Shawnee County...

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