Appendix A - Order Suspending Award of Fees
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March 22, 1976
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Case Files, Norwood v. Harrison - Hardbacks. Appendix A - Order Suspending Award of Fees, 1976. 68151d8e-732e-f111-88b4-0022482cdbbc. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/555da9ee-847f-40da-83bb-6d33d7f2f401/appendix-a-order-suspending-award-of-fees. Accessed July 18, 2026.
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[||39f48467-1678-47ed-bcdf-a863fbddb6c6||] APPENDIX A
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
WESTERN DIVISION
DELORES NORWOOD, ET AL.,
Plaintiffs
V. WC 70-53-K
D. L. HARRISON, ZT AL.,
Defendants
ORDER
The court has before it the motion of defendants herein
to stay, without supersedeas bond, the Order of this Court entered
March 2, 1976, granting plaintiffs an award of attorneys' fees
and costs. Defendants, on March 17, 1976, took an appeal to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from this
Order, and there being no question of defendants' ability or
willingness to satisfy the terms of the Order should their appeal
prove unsuccessful, and there being a serious likelihood that
defendants will prevail in their appeal, it is
ORDERED
That enforcement of our Order of March 2, 1976, ordering
defendants to pay to plaintiffs an award of attorneys' fees and
costs in this action is hereby stayed and suspended until final
disposition of defendants’ appeal by the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, without the necessity of supersed-
eas bond; provided, however, that in the event that such Order is
affirmed on appeal, then the amount of the award so affirmed shall
bear interest in the amount of 8% per annum from March 2, 1976,
mwtil pald.
This Ad —aay of March, 1976.
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Alar. C. :
CHIEF JUDGE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT [||39f48467-1678-47ed-bcdf-a863fbddb6c6||]