Defendants' Counter-Motion to Plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration of Award of Attorneys' Fees with Cover Letter

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July 6, 1977

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- Political Participation
Topic
- Voting Rights
Matter
- Mobile v. Bolden
Case
- Mobile v. Bolden
U.S. state
- Alabama
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- Case Files
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Case Files, Bolden v. Mobile Hardbacks and Appendices. Defendants' Counter-Motion to Plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration of Award of Attorneys' Fees with Cover Letter, 1977. a2ebf1d0-cdcd-ef11-b8e8-7c1e520b5bae. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5bb68031-79ad-4239-9122-58b5aa46c94d/defendants-counter-motion-to-plaintiffs-motion-for-reconsideration-of-award-of-attorneys-fees-with-cover-letter. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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CHAS = aman HAND, ARENDALL, BEDSOLE, GREAVES & JOHNSTON MAILING ADDRESS C. B. ARENDALL, JR. TG Boz
T. MASSEY BEDSOLE
THOMAS G. GREAVES, JR. LAWYERS Sa ae.

MIVIAN (9. 2SHNSTON, SR: 30TH FLOOR FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING HAB PAUL W. BROCK
ALEX F. LANKFORD, TIT
EDMUND R, CANNON MOBILE, ALABAMA
LYMAN F. HOLLAND, JR.
J. THOMAS HINES, JR. AREA CODE 205 432-5511

DONALD F. PIERCE
LOUIS E. BRASWELL
HAROLD D. PARKMAN 1 9 7 “7
G. PORTER BROCK, JR. Ju y 6 ’ 1
STEPHEN G. CRAWFORD
JERRY A. MCDOWELL

W. RAMSEY MCKINNEY, JR.

A. CLAY RANKIN, IIT

EDWARD A. HYNDMAN, JR.

MICHAEL D. KNIGHT
G. HAMP UZZELLE, IIL
G. L. LEATHERBURY, JR.

WILLIAM C., TIDWELL IIT

WILLIAM C. ROEDDER, JR.
EDWARD S$. SLEDGE, IIT
TRAVIS M. BEDSOLE, JR.

J. HODGE ALVES, III
CAINE O'REAR, IIT

Jack Greenberg, Esquire
Attorney at Law
10 Columbus Circle
New York, New York 10019

Re: Bolden v. City of Mobile
Civil Action No. 75-297-P

Dear Mr. Greenberg:

Enclosed is a copy of the pleading that we have filed
in this matter today.

Very truly yours,

WW bln < 2 fon
William C. Tidwell, III
For The Firm

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR

THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

SOUTHERN DIVISION

WILEY L.. BOLDEN, et al., *

Plaintiffs, *

VS. % CIVIL ACTION NO. 75-297-P

CITY OF MOBILE, et al., ®

Defendants. *

DEFENDANTS' COUNTER-MOTION TO

PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION

OF AWARD OF ATTORNEYS FEES

COME the Defendants herein and respectfully show unto

the Court:

1. Plaintiffs are entitled to an award of costs and

attorneys' fees herein only if they are the prevailing parties

in this action. The question of whether they will or will not

be the prevailing parties herein has not yet been determined

and cannot be determined until final judgments may properly

be entered on the appeals which have been taken by Defendants

of the judgments rendered by this Court on October 22, 1976,

and March 9, 1977.

2. Unless this Court will enter an appropriate order

to protect the Defendants, and each of them, from any obliga-

tion to pay an award to the Plaintiffs for costs and attorneys’

fees unless and until their right, if any, to such an award

has been finally determined, it will be necessary that the

Defendants take a protective appeal from the award which this

Court has rendered. All parties to this litigation will incur

: -3 SER 3 a. - yr 1 —~ 3 - ~ = IE Tal N 7 p ~~ the judicial system, if such an appeal must be taken.
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WHEREFORE, Defendants pray that the Court enter such

order as shall be required to assure that the Plaintiffs

shall receive no award of costs or attornevs' fees if, upon

the final determination of the appeals that have previously

been taken by Defendants herein, the Plaintiffs are not the

prevailing parties herein.

OF COUNSEL:

Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, C. B. Arendall, Jr.
Greaves & Johnston William C. Tidwell, IIT

Post Office Box 123 Post. Office Box 123
Mobile, Alabama 36601 Mobile, Alabama 36601

Legal Department of the Fred G. Collins, City Attorney
City of Mobile City Hall

Mobile, Alabama 36602 Mobile, Alabama 36602

Rhyne & Rhyne Charles S. Rhyne
400 Hill Building 400 Hill Building
Washington, D. C. 20006 Washington, D. C. 20006

By: ¢ FS a : ase

Attorneys for Defendants
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I do hereby certify that I have on this 42” day of July,

Ff 1977, served a copy of the foregoing Defendants’ Counter—-Motion

Fees on counsel for all parties to this proceeding, by mailing

the same by United States mail, properly addressed, and first

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