Attachments A and B (Time Sheets and Affidavits)
Public Court Documents
November 6, 1986
41 pages
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Case Files, Dillard v. Crenshaw County Hardbacks. Attachments A and B (Time Sheets and Affidavits), 1986. 27ebef8a-b7d8-ef11-a730-7c1e527e6da9. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/73eb7435-44a5-4873-b5f3-82fd5a441717/attachments-a-and-b-time-sheets-and-affidavits. Accessed December 04, 2025.
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Attorneys
Larry T. Menefee
James U. Blacksher
Gregory B. Stein
Wanda J. Cochran
Reo Kirkland, Jr.
¥W. Edward Still
Deborah Fins
Paola Maranan
(paralegal)
ATTORNEYS’
Hours
398.10
55.10
382.0
TOTAL FEES
FEES
Fees
$47,772.
$44,028.
350.
$12,950.
5,210.
$14,730.
$ 6,887.
$11,460.
ATTACHMENT A
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22,095.
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17,190. 00
$215,081.00
Page No.
10/28/86
DATE
11/21/85
11/22/85
11/25/85
11/26/85
12/02/85
12/05/85
12/06/85
12/09/85
12/10/85
12/11/88
12/12/85
12/13/85
12/16/85
12/17/85
1 TIME OF LARRY T. MENEFEE
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 11/08/85 TO 12/31/85
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
research re historical issues and review joinder and
defendant class issues, confer research assistants
and experts re polarized vote analysis
research re joinder issues and polarized vote
analysis problems, confer with McCrary letters to
Hanks and Davidson
t/ with co-counsel Fins, defense atty and meet with
McCrary re preparation of intent case.
research re discovery, confer with client re
settlement, research joinder issues
research re joinder issues and prep discovery
t w/ defensae atty, research re ammended complaint,
travel to Montgomery for status conference
confer with defense counsel re status conference and
settlement, attend status conference, research re
amended complaint and district plan,ret. to Mob
research and draft discovery and amended complaint,
confer with Still re Pickens
research and draft complaint and discovery
research and draft amended complaint, t w/ various
co. Officials,
tw/ Kirkland re Escambia Co
research and draft amended complaint, research at
co. law library re local statutes, confer with
plaintiffs
final proof of motion and amended pleading, confer
with clients and research re local forms of govt.
confer with client Thomas re Etowah and research
confer with co-counsel and outline work/testimony
for experts
HOURS
Page No. P] TIME OF LARRY T. MENEFEE
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 11/08/85 TO 12/31/85
10/28/86
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DATE DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES HOURS
12/18/85 confer with clients, research re legislative 1.90
history, research and prepare service of summons,
complaint and discovery
12/19/85 prepare and mail summons and service copies, confer 1.40
with clerk
12/20/85 t w/ clerk re service and research same 0.80
12/26/85 research re historical evidence and respond to 1.90
client inquiry
12/27/85 historical research 1.20
X Xk X Total Xx ¥ X%
41.90
Page No. 1 TIME OF LARRY T. MENEFEE
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 01/01/86 TO 10/27/86
10/28/86
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DATE DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
HOURS
356.20
Page No. l TIME OF J.U. Blacksher
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 01/01/86 TO 10/27/86
10/28/86
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DATE DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES HOURS
xk Xx Total ***
365.00
Page No.
10/28/86
DATE
12/17/85
12/19/85
12/26/85
*x% Total
¥ Xk X
1 TIME OF J.U. Blacksher
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 11/08/85 TO 12/31/85
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Confs Menefee, Cochran re discovery, strategy
Study file
Research venue, joinder
HOURS
0.80
0.50
0.60
1.90
AFFIDAVIT OF GREGORY B. STEIN
STATE OF ALABAMA )
MOBILE COUNTY )
Gregory B. Stein, being duly sworn on oath, deposes and says
as follows:
I was admitted to the practice of law in September, 1975,
and have been engaged in private practice in Mobile, Alabama,
since that time. The vast majority of my practice (over 90%) has
been in the fields of civil rights and constitutional law.
Attached hereto is a description of time expended by me in
connection with the Dillard v. Crenshaw County action. There
was only one occasion when I expended a significant amount of
time in connection with this action and for which I will claim
fees. The entry of time was extracted from time logs I have
maintained on a daily basis of work done. To the best of my
knowledge, information and belief, the time logs and the
description of time attached hereto accurately reflect the time I
expended in connection with this litigation for which I will
claim compensation.
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Page No. 1 TIME OF GREGORY B. STEIN
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 01/01/86 TO 10/27/86
10/28/86
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DATE DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES HOURS
STATE OF ALABAMA )
ESCAMBIA COUNTY )
AFFIDAVIT OF REO KIRKLAND, JR.
Reo Kirkland, Jr., after being duly sworn deposes and
says as follows:
"l. I am one of the attorneys for plaintiffs in this
action.
2. I was admitted to practice in 1977 and have been
engaged in the private practice of law continuously as a
sole practitioner.
3. I am a member of the Escambia County and Alabama
Bar Associations. I am licensed to practice before all state
courts in Alabama and the United States District Court for
the Southern and Middle Districts.
4. My current hourly rate for federal civil litigation
is $100.00 per hour.
5. Attached hereto is a compilation of the time sheets
which I maintained during my participation in this case. They
reflect the work that I have performed for which I have not
been compensated.
6. 1 believe the time reflected by the attached compila-
tion is both reasonable and necessary to properly meet my
professional responsibilities to the plaintiffs and the plaintiff
class.
7. I undertook the representation of the plaintiffs
in this cause ‘on a contingent fee basis understanding that any
fee I recover will be by courtaward."
me this the & gay of November,
1986. ,
My Commissil xpires 2/17/90
TELEPHONE AREA CODE 205
OFFICE. 867-5711
HOME: 867.3384
REO KIRKLAND, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
307 EVERGREEN AVENUE
BREWTON, ALABAMA
MAILING ADDRESS
P.O. BOX 6486
November 4 , 1 9 8 6 BREWTON, ALABAMA 36427
FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RENDERED RE: JOHN DILLARD, ET AL
V. CRENSHAW COUNTY, ETC., ET AL CIVIL ACTION NO. 85-7-1332-N
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE
DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION
12/11/85
12/11/88
12/11/85
12/23/85
1/2/86
1/6/86
1/13/86
1/13/86
1/13/86
1/16/86
Phone conference with Larry Menefee & Jerome
Gray
Phone conference with Larry Menefee
Phone conference with Ulysesses McBride
Phone conference with Jerome Gray
Receipt & review amended complaint, plaintiff's
first discovery request and appearance of
counsel notice 1
Receipt & review of letter to all plaintiffs
from Larry Menefee
Receipt & review of letter from J. Blacksher
to all Probate Judges re: settlement
Receipt & review Pickens County Motion
to Dismiss
Receipt & review Lawrence County request
for briefing schedule and oral argument
and motion to dismiss or transfer or sever
and transfer or to dismiss class action
allegations
Receipt and review Etowah County Motion
to Dismiss
Receipt and review Lawrence County answer
for Clerk, Larry Smith
Receipt and review motion for leave to
amend complaint and amended complaint
0 hr.
+31 hr.
Page Two
November 4,
1/16/86
1/16/86
1/16/86
1/16/86
1/17/86
1/20/86
1/22/86
1722/86
1/24/86
1/24/86
1/24/86
1/27/86
1/28/86
1/28/86
1/28/86
1/28/86
1986
Receipt and review Etowah County motion
to sever and amended motion to dismiss
and motion to transfer «4 1,
Receipt and review Calhoun County motion
to dismiss «1 hl
Receipt and review Coffee County motion
to dismiss v2 DY.
Receipt and review of plaintiff's response
to Pickens County motion to dismiss and
motion to change identification of parties «lhy,
Receipt and review of letter brief on
res judicata raised by Pickens County defendant «+5 ‘Hr.
Receipt and review of Pickens County request
for briefing schedule and oral argument
on motion to dismiss «Ahr.
Receipt and review of Order of court
setting motions for hearing «1 hr.
Receipt and review of Pickens County answer
to plaintiff's response to Pickens County
motion to dismiss «2 hr.
Phone conference w/J. Blacksher re: Escambia
County settlement TC od
Receipt & review of nonfiling discovery
requirement from Clerk of Court «1 hr,
Receipt & review of plaintiff's reques
for admissions 1.0. hr.
Receipt & review of Ed Still explanation
on plaintirf's request for admissions «l:hy.
Receipt & review of Etowah County regeust
for admissions «75 hr.
Receipt & review of Escambia County brief
in support of motion to dismiss and/or
sever and/or transfer «75 hr.
Receipt & review of amended notice of
appearance from Lawrence County defendants «1 hr,
Phone conference w/Lee Otts, Escambia
County attorney «25 hr.
Page Three
November 4,
1/28/86
1/29/86
1/30/86
1/31/86
1/31/86
1/31/86
2/3/86
2/4/86
2/4/86
2/6/86
2/10/86
2/11/86
2/13/86
2/14/86
2/14/86
1986
Phone conference w/Jim Webb's secretary
Receipt & review Pickens County brief in
support of motion for summary judgment
Phone conferences w/J. Webb and Black
firm to set up settlement meeting
sher
Receipt & review of Lawrence County memorandum
brief in support of motion to dismiss
transfer
oY
Receipt & review memo in support of Coffee
County motion to dismiss
Receipt & review Pickens County subst
of page 1 of brief changing to motion
dismiss
Phone conference w/Jim Blacksher re:
settlement meeting
Receipt & review answer to plaintiff’
interrogatories and motion to produce
Pickens County Probate Judge W.H. Lan
Settlement meeting with J. Blacksher,
Otts, J. Webb and Escambia County pla
Receipt & review of plaintiff's petit
for preliminary injunction and class
tion order and receipt & review plain
ltute
to
S
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Lee
intiffs
ion
certifica-
tiffs
brief in response to defendant's motion to
dismiss and/or sever and/or transfer
support of plaintiff's motion for pre
injunction and class certification wi
attachments
Receipt & review address correction f
Deborah Fins
Receipt & review Order of Court dated
2/10/86 setting motion hearing for Ma
4, 1986
Receipt & review Etowah County defend
amended answer
Receipt & review proposed consent dec
Crenshaw County
Phone conference w/Jim Blacksher re:
injunction and settlement
and in
liminary
th
rom
ch
ant's
ree
preliminary
“2 hy,
1.0 hr.
3.0. hrs.
«Shir.
“3 "hr.
Page Four
November 4, 1986
2/17/86
2/17/86
2/18/86
2/18/86
2/19/86
2/20/86
2/21/86
2/21/86
2/21/86
2/24/86
2/24/86
2/24/86
2/25/86
Receipt & review three settlement proposals
submitted to Lawrence County defendants and
Etowah County settlement proposal .57hr.
Receipt & review motion of Crenshaw County
Probate Judge to be excused from active
participation in hearings v2 hr.
Receipt & review proposed consent decrees
for the following counties: Escambia, Calhoun,
Coffee, Crenshaw, Pickens and proposed settle-
ment with Crenshaw County
Phone conference w/J. Blacksher re: election
return evidence and possible settlement
proposals 5 hr,
Receipt & review plaintiff's motion to
shorten time and plaintiff's second discovery
request 25 hy
Receipt & review motion to join Lee County as
defendant proposed amended complaint and
proposed consent decree
Receipt & review proposed consent decrees
for Talladega County «2.-hr.
Receipt & review Lawrence County defendant's
response to plaintiff's first discovery request <5 hr.
Receipt & review Pickens County answer to
plaintiff's request for admissions
settlement Phone conference w/J. Webb re:
and memo to file
Receipt & review Order of court dated 2/21/86
and receipt & review Etowah County answers
to plaintiff's interrogatories and motion to
produce «2 Dr.
Receipt & review Escambia County defendant's
response to request for admissions and responses
to interrogatories by all Escambia County
defendants
Receipt & review offer from Escambia County
defendants attorney J. Webb
Receipt & review plaintiff's witness list
and plaintiff's list of exhibits web hr.
vi NX
Page Five
November 4, 1986
2/25/86 Receipt & review Lawrence County defendants
witness list and response to request for
admissions .25 hr.
2/26/86 Receipt & review proposed settlement with
Crenshaw County +25 hr.
2/26/86 Receipt & review Escambia County's witness
and document list and Lawrence County supple-
ment witness list and exhibit list and
Etoway County witness list +5 hr.
2/26/86 Phone conference w/J. Blacksher, Larry
Menefee and Ed Still +5 Nr.
2/26/86 Phone conference w/Jerome Gray +54hyr.,
2/27/86 Receipt & review of plaintiff's additional
list "Of exhibits, letter from J. Webb re:
settlement, and amendment to Escambia County
defendants designation of documents and
plaintiff's request for judicial notice 1.0 hr.
2/27/86 Phone conferences w/J. Reed, J. Webb, E.
Still re: settlement negotiations 2.0 hrs,
2/28/86 Phone conference w/J. Blacksher, J. Webb
and J. Gray AL
2/28/86 Phone conference w/L. Menefee and E. Still «25 hr.
3/3/86 Receipt & review plaintiff's proposed findings
of fact and conclusions of law and preliminary
injunction 1.5 hr.
3/3/86 Conference w/J. Blacksher re: Escambia County
settlement documents +25 hr.
3/4/86 Phone conference w/J. Webb «25 hr.
3/4/86 Phone conference w/J. Gray v25 hr.
3/6/86 Phone conference w/J. Blacksher re: change
in wording of settlement document «25 hr.
3/7/86 Phone conference w/J. Gray and J. Webb re:
district lines meeting «25 hr.
3/12/86 Travel----Brewton to Montgomery to Brewton
Conference to agree on district lines w/J.
Webb, L. Meneff and J. Gray 6.0 hr.
Page Six
November 4, 1986
3/14/86 Phone conference w/L. Menefee's secretary
re: Converence w/Judge Thompson +1 Rr.
3/17/86 Travel--Brewton to Montgomery to Brewton
Settlement converence w/Judge Thompson 6.0 hrs.
3/26/86 Recelpt & review letter to Justice Department
from J. Webb re: preclearance of plan for
districts and elections in Escambia County «2 hr.
4/1/86 Receipt & review letter from L. Menefee to
Justice Department re: preclearance of
Escambia County plan 1-ht,
4/16/86 Phone conference w/L. Menefee v2 Ar.
4/17/86 Review file on Crenshaw and Escambia County
cases 1.0 hr.
4/17/86 Receipt & review Escambia and Crenshaw County
interim orders «25:hr.
4/18/86 Phone conference w/J. Gray hy.
4/18/86 Travel--Brewton to Montgomery to Brewton 6+5. hr.
4/29/86 Phone conference w/L. Menefee re: final order .1 hr.
5/1/86 Receipt & reveiw proposed final order approving
settlement and consent decree for Escambai
County «25 hr.
5/5/86 Receipt & review final order approving settlement
and final consent decree for Escambia County .4 hy.
5/29/86 Receipt & review notice of pretrial hearing,
order denying Escambia County defendant's motion
to dismiss, and order and injunction as to Calhoun,
Coffee, Etowah, Lawrence and Talladega Counties
and memorandum opinion of the court «45 hr.
TOTAL HOURS—=—===———mm=———— 52.10 hrs.
52.10 hours at $100.00 per hour--=—=—===m——————-— $5,210.00
Long Distance Phone Charges———=—=====m meer em ———————— 83.12
POS LAGE vr wr cr me set tr sw oe st son we se 1 we ie cs aw or sor vet pr we penn or or pw es 3.45
Travel 3/12/86 220 miles; Trave. 3/17/86 220 miles;
Travel 4/18/86 220 miles at $.22 per mile--=—=—-===- 145.20
PATK LIIC mm sviom tr tr mr vt son ro rr mtr ene wr a ce sr ms gn 2.00
TOTAL DUE---855,443.77
EDWARD STILL’S CASE TIME SUMMARY FOR DILLARD V CRENSHAW CO
date hours
01/15/86 1.75
01/15/86 1.50
01/16/86 5.00
01/20/86 0.25
01/21/86 1.75
01/21/86 0.50
01/24/86 6.75
01/29/86 1.00
01/30/86 0.75
01/30/86 0.25
02/03/86 0.40
02/03/86 0.60
02/04/86 5.00
02/05/86 0.25
02/05/86 1.75
02/06/86 0.25
02/07/86 7.75
work performed
Telephone to Menefee re: division of work in
preparation of case; Starting Peter Kitrell to
work
Research on res judicata (Pickens)
Preparing discovery to defendants; reviewing
census data
Received motion to dismiss; Telephone to
Blacksher re: response to it
Preparing request to admit
telephone conferences with Blacksher re:
Talladega and Lawerence Co.
Trip to Talladega to discuss settlement;
Telephone to Blacksher; work on Settlement
Telephone to Blacksher re: Pickens brief;
finding relevant Pickens orders; Letter to
Blacksher
Checking old court file on Talladega case
Telephone from Blacksher re: authority tc
settle
Telephone from Blacksher re: settlements
Prep for Lawrence Co. meeting
Trip to Lawrence Co.
Telephone from Blacksher re: Lawrence Co.
Etowah Co. : Telephone to Floyd, Reed;
research
Received Talladega 1970 order; Telephone to
Blacksher
trip to Montgomery; settlement discussions
with various defendants; oral orgument;
conference with Blacksher, Cochran, Grey,
Wilson
02/10/86
02/11/86
02/13/86
02/14/86
02/14/86
02/20/86
02/20/86
02/21/86
02/24/86
02/25/86
02/26/86
02/27/86
02/28/86
02/28/86
03/03/86
03/04/86
03/05/86
03/18/86
03/28/86
03/31/86
11.
10.
.40
.80
.50
«10
«20
.60
.40
«50
.70
«50
«75
.60
50
Reading our brief
Research on Talladega Co; Letter to Blacksher
Conference with Blacksher re: setlements
Telephone to, Letter from settlement
in Etowah
Floyd re:
Telephone from Martin re: settlement in
Lawerence; Telephone from Boyd
Telephone to, Letter to Vaughan re: Talladega
Review all settlement offers: Conference with
Blacksher and Cochran
Preparing motion for judicial notice;
Reviewing defendants’ position
Telephone from Cochran re: exhibits; reading
Escambia answers to discovery
Telephone to Blacksher; review of Henderson v
Graddick
work on statement of facts; prep for trial
Escambia: Telephone from Jim Webb re:
settlement discussions: telephone to Reo
Kirkland; telephone from Blacksher
Escambia: telephone conf with Blacksher and
Kirkland re: settlement
Trial preparation
Reviewing proposed findings of facts and
conclusions of law; telephone calls re:
tomorrow’s conference with judge
Trial preparation; conference with judge and
opposing counsel
Trial; return trip to Birmingham
Telephone from Ernie Jones
reviewing materials Blacksher sent to Judge
telephone from Blacksher re another request
2
04/01/86
04/02/86
04/03/86
04/10/86
04/14/86
04/15/86
04/18/86
04/21/86
04/24/86
04/25/86
04/28/86
05/12/86
05/22/86
06/02/86
06/03/86
06/04/86
06/05/86
from Judge Thompson; research on primary
election laws
telephone to Blacksher re any preparations we
need to make in anticipation of possible
rulings by Judge Thompson
received Calhoun offer of judgment; compared
to our proposed settlement
telephone from Blacksher re our response, if
any, to Calhoun’s offer of judgment
telephone from Fins re Rule 68 from Calhoun
Co.
telephone to Menefee re trial preparation
telephone to Menefee re trial preparation
telephone from Menefee; telephone to Maranan;
telephone to Henderson
telephone conference w/Maranan re getting
demographic data needed by Henderson;
reviewing census reports; telephone to
Henderson
telephone to Maranan re maps and statistics
conference w/Blacksher re Russell Co.
research
letter from Judge Thompson; telephone to
Blacksher re letter
analysis of Ft. Lauderdale case; letter to
Blacksher
received and read orders and opinions
conference w/Blacksher and Menefee re
likelihood of appeal by defendants and
preparation for 23 July hearing
preparation for hearing; telephone to
Henderson, Maranan, Blacksher; letter to
Henderson
checking Corder file for material to be used
in trial (Pickens Co.)
3
06/09/86
06/12/86
06/13/86
06/13/86
06/16/86
06/16/86
06/17/86
06/17/86
06/19/86
06/19/86
06/19/86
06/23/86
06/24/86
06/26/86
07/07/86
07/08/86
08/22/86
.60
.30
.00
+25
«70
.25
+25
.20
+30
.10
.00
.80
3.00
letter from and to Henderson re materials he
needs for trial, theory of defense, etc.;
telephone from Blacksher re judge’s request
for status letter; preparing for Henderson
testimony
letter from Jones, telephone to Blacksher re
Calhoun and Pickens
received statements from Lawrence, Etowah, and
Talladega counties; telephone to Blacksher and
Menefee;
preparing letter to Floyd re offer of judgment
(Etowah)
preparing letters to Floyd re offer of
judgment and settlement; telephone to
Blacksher (Etowah); letter to clients
letter from and letter to Henderson
telephone to Blacksher re settlement
discussions with defendants
(Etowah County): telephone to Gray
conf with Blacksher and Menefee re settlement,
hearing, etc.; letter from and telephone to
Henderson re missing data
(Etowah) reviewing plans of county
(Lawrence) reviewing county scheduling
proposal
telephone to Burnim re work being done by
assistants at Voting Rights Project
telephone from Maranan; telephone to Blacksher
re preparation for trial and stipulation
telephone to Blacksher
analysis of Thornburg v Gingles
reading many documents received from
defendants in last 2 days; telephone to
Blacksher .
attending pretrial conference; conference with
4
08/24/86
08/25/86
09/02/86
09/03/86
09/08/86
09/10/86
09/11/86
09/26/86
09/30/86
10/02/86
10/22/86
TOTAL
0.25
Menefee and Cochran re research needed in .case
research on Jesse Owens statute in Lawrence
County
conference with Menefee re Pickens probate
judgeship
reading Lawrence Co memo
reading our brief
conference with Menefee re trial and timing
problems on elections
telephone to Menefee
conf w/Menefee re problems in special
elections; drafting letters to counsel
telephone to Menefee re responses from
counties on election preparations and from
Justice Dept
Crenshaw Co: conference with Menefee re
election problem; research on state election
laws
Reading our post-trial brief
0.75 quick review of opinion and orders; conf with
Menefee
122.75 hours
Page No.
10/28/86
DATE
11/08/85
11/11/85
11/12/85
11/20/85
11/26/85
12/06/85
12/09/85
12/09/85
12/10/85
12/11/85
12/12/85
12/13/85
12/17/85
12/19/85
12/20/85
12/27/85
* XX Total X XX
1 TIME OF WANDA J. COCHRAN
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 11/08/85 TO 12/31/88
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Research-Senate Committee findings(.5) confer with
LTM, JG (.8) edit complaint(.7).
Research interrogatories.
Draft Planitff's First Discovery Request.
Draft interrogatories.
Conference with LTH.
Draft interrogatories.
Edit amended complaint(.4) review answer(.5).
Draft, edit interrogatories.
Edit interrogatories.
Edit interrogatories.
Telephone conference Jerome Gray re plaintiffs.
Edit amended complaint.
Conference with LTM and JUB.
Edit interrogatories, draft letter.
Review files research legislative history.
Telephone conference Peyton McCrary re legislative
histories.
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Page NO.
10/28/86
DATE
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TIME OF WANDA J. COCHRAN
IN DILLARD vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al
FOR 01/01/86 TO 10/27/86
BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P. A.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES HOURS
170.70
STILL LIST OF EXPENSES IN DILLARD
date expense description
01/21/86 16.05 Postmaster
01/31/86 10.00 Federal Record Center--Talladega Co case
02/05/86 75.60 Xerox
02/12/86 19.55 Telephone
03/11/86 0.90 Law Library
03/14/86 115.65 Xerox
03/14/86 29.24 Telephone
03/31/86 1.50 xerox
02/04/86 30.00 travel - 150 miles
02/07/86 40.40 travel - 202 miles
02/22/86 40.20 travel - 201 miles
04/29/86 3.15 xerox
04/30/86 11.00 Federal Express
04/30/86 17.24 phone
01/21/86 16.05 U.S. Postmaster
01/31/86 10.00 Federal Record Center
02/05/86 75.60 xerox
02/02/86 19.55 phone
03/11/86 0.90 Law library
03/14/86 113.65 xerox
03/14/86 29.24 phone
03/31/86 1.50 xerox
65/30/86 20.64 phone
07/08/86 23.00 Federal Express
07/08/86 31.25 Federal Express
07/31/86 6.15 Xerox
07/31/86 71.45 phone
08/28/86 27.00 xerox
09/30/86 8.36 phone
TOTAL 864.82
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
NORTHERN DIVISION
RISE WSS, al a Na RE
JOHN DILLARD, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
Vv. : Civil Action No. CV 85-T-1332-N
CRENSHAW COUNTY, ALABAMA,
et al.,
Defendants.
JIT CY IIR oS A Ea LS ERT
AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF NEW YORK )
: 8S.
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
DEBORAH FINS, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
, I am one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs in this
case, and I am employed as Assistant Counsel of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. ("Legal Defense Fund"). I
submit this affidavit in support of plaintiffs' application for
an award of attorneys' fees, costs and expenses.
2. The Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization
which was founded in 1940 and which has since furnished legal
assistance in cases involving claims of racial discrimination and
deprivation of constitutional rights before state and federal
courts throughout the nation. See NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415,
421 n.5 (1963). The Legal Defense Fund has been approved by the
®
Appellate Division of the State of New York to function as a
legal aid organization, and it has been cited by the United
States Supreme Court as having a "corporate reputation for
expertness in presenting and arguing the difficult questions of
law that frequently arise in civil rights litigation." NAACP v.
Button, supra, 371 U.S. at 422. In the area of voting rights in
particular, attorneys affiliated with the Legal Defense Fund have
litigated important cases decided by the Supreme Court (e.g.,
Gingles v. Thornburg, U.S. _ , 106 S, Ct. 2752 (1986); United
Jewish Organizations v. Carey, 430 U.S. 144 (1977); Allen v.
Board of Elections, 393 U.S. 544 (1966); Smith v. Allwright, 321
U.S. 649 (1944); Nixon v. Condon, 286 U.S. 73 (1932); as well as
the Circuit courts or three-judge courts (e.g., Brown v. Bd. of
Sch. Com'rs of Mobile County, Ala., 706 F.2d 1103 (11th Cir.
1983); Coalition for Ed. in Dist, 1 Vv, Board of ‘Flec., City of
N.Y., 495 F.2d 1090 (2d Cir. 1974); Major v. Treen, 574 F. Supp.
325 (E.D. La. 1983) (three-judge court)).
3. Neither I nor any other attorney on the staff of the
Legal Defense Fund has accepted or expects to receive any
compensation or reimbursement from the plaintiffs in this case.
No counsel fees, costs or expenses will be obtained for work done
or money spent on this case by the Legal Defense Fund or its
staff attorneys unless the Court awards such fees, costs and
expenses against the defendants. Any such award to attorneys
employed by the Legal Defense Fund will be paid over to the Legal
Defense Fund.
4. I am admitted to practice law before the following
courts: the Supreme Court of the United States, the United
States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth and Eleventh
Circuits; the United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York; and the New York Court of Appeals. I have
appeared pro hac vice in numerous other courts.
5, I graduated with honors from Barnard College in 1975
and Columbia Law School in 1978. I began working for the Legal
Defense Fund in August, 1978.
6. Between August, 1978 and April, 1983, I was responsible
for the Fund's death penalty litigation in the State of Florida,
the state with the largest death row population in the nation. I
was also involved as co-counsel in capital cases from other
jurisdictions. Among the cases in which I was counsel are
Barclay v. Florida, 463 U.S. 939 (1983); Enmund v. Florida, 458
U.S. 782 (1982); Proffitt v. Wainwright, 685 F.2d 1227 (11th Cir.
1982), on reh. 706 F.2d 311 (11th Cir. 1983); Washington v.
Watkins, 655 F.2d 1346 (5th Cir. 1981); Prejean v. Blackburn, 570
F. Supp. 985 (W.D. La. 1983); State v. McDowell, 310 N.C. 61, 310
S.E. 2d 301 (1984); Brown, et al. v. Wainwright, 392 So.2d 1327
(Fla. 1981). There are also countless other death cases in which
I played a major role in the drafting of briefs, habeas corpus
petitions and stay applications, but did not serve as counsel of
record, e.g., Songer v. Wainwright, 769 F.2d 1488 (11th Cir.
1985) (en banc); Hall v. Wainwright, 733 F.2d 766 (11th Cir.
1984); Reddix v. Thigpen, 728 F.2d 705 (5th Cir. 1984); Dobbert
v. Wainwright, 718 F.2d 1518 (11th Cir. 1983); Witt v.
Wainwright, 714 F.2d 1069 (11th Cir. 1983); Williams v. Maggio,
679 F.2d 381 (5th Cir. 1982); Ford v. Strickland, 675 F.2d 434
(11th Cir. 1982); 696 F.2d 804 (11th Cir. 1983) (en banc); Palmes
v. Wainwright, No. 82-583-Civ-J-M (M.D. Fla.); Jones v.
Wainwright, 446 So.2d 1059 (Fla. 1984); and Knight v. Wainwright,
394 So.2d 997 (Fla. 1981). In numerous other cases I served as a
consultant on capital trials, direct appeals, clemency or post-
conviction proceedings, editing briefs, stay papers, clemency
memos or petitions for writ of certiorari, and researching and
advising on the formulation of federal constitutional issues,
e.g. Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982); Goode Vv.
Wainwright, 704 F.2d 593 (11th Cir. 1983); Zeigler v. Wainwright,
473 So.2d 203 (Fla. 1985); Jacobs v. Wainwright, 450 So.2d 200
(Fla. 1984); Demps v. Wainwright, 416 So.2d 808 (Fla. 1982). I
edited a manual for clemency proceedings in Florida which was
prepared under my supervision by Columbia Law School students,
and assisted in the preparation of a manual on post-conviction
proceedings in capital cases.
1. In addition to my work in death penalty litigation, I
have served as counsel in a variety of other cases, all of which
involved issues related to civil rights, e.g., Martin v. Allain,
No. J84-0708 (L) (S.D. Miss.) (voting rights suit involving at-
large election of state court judges); Webb v. County Bd. of
Educ. of Dyer County, 715 F.2d 254 (6th Cir. 1983) (attorneys'
fees for state administrative work under 42 U.S.C. § 1988); Jones
v. Hutto, No. PB-74-C-173 (E.D. Ark.) (employment discrimination
class action by employees of the Arkansas Department of
Corrections); Hubert v. Ward, No. C-C-80-414-M (W.D.N.C.) (North
Carolina multi-institution prison conditions lawsuit); Small wv.
artin, No. 85-987-CRT (E.D. N.C.) (multi-institution prison
conditions lawsuit); Feamster v. Brierton, No. 79-132-CIV-J-C
(M.D. Fla.) (Florida death row conditions lawsuit); Moran v.
NARF, No.73-702-Civ.-J-S (M.D. Fla.) (employment discrimination
class action by employees of Naval Air Rework Facility); Jenkins
v. Missouri, 593 F. Supp. 1485 (W.D. Mo. 1984) (suit to
desegregate the public schools of Kansas City, Missouri, and
surrounding suburbs); United States v. Charleston County
Consolidated School Board, No. 81-50-8 {D.S.C.) {suit to
desegregate the public schools of Charleston County, South
Carolina).
8. I have served on the faculty of the National College
for Criminal Defense at programs in Charleston, South Carolina
and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and have spoken at similar programs
presented by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association in
Atlanta, Georgia and Boston, Massachusetts; by the Florida Public
Defender Association in St. Augustine and Sarasota, Florida; and
by a coalition of groups in Richmond, Virginia. I organized and
spoke at a number of conferences co-sponsored by the Legal
Defense Fund, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other
organizations, in Warrenton, Virginia. I have been a trial
practice seminar leader and appeared as a guest speaker at
classes at several law schools, including Yale, Columbia, New
York University and Hawaii. In 1982 I received the Nelson
Poynter Award for my work in the defense of capital cases from
the American Civil Liberties Union.
9. My hourly rate is $135 per hour. I recently received
$125 an hour for work performed between 1983 and 1985 (the bulk
of which was in the summer and fall of 1984) on settlement of
Hubert v. Ward, No. C-C-80-414-M (W.D.N.C.). Attached as
Appendix A to this affidavit is a schedule of the hours I have
spent on this case from my initial involvement in October, 1985
to the present. These hours were compiled from contemporaneous
time records which I maintained throughout this period. The
Legal Defense Fund additionally requests compensation for
attorney travel expenses in the sum of $199.00, paid by the
Fund in this case.
10. In addition to the hours listed in Appendix A, other
attorneys employed by the Legal Defense Fund have reviewed
documents filed in this case and have conferred with me from time
to time concerning this case. These attorneys include Director-
Counsel Julius L. Chambers, First Assistant Counsel Charles
Stephen Ralston and Assistant Counsel C. Lani Guinier and Penda
Hair. In order to provide a conservative statement of the time
spent on this case and to eliminate any hours which might
conceivably constitute a duplication of effort, the Legal Defense
Fund is not requesting fees for the services of attorneys
Chambers, Ralston, Guinier or Hair.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this */ day of November, 1986.
Notary Public
7
DEBORAH FINS
10-23-85
11-4-85
11-28-85
12-4-85
1-13-86
1-14-86
1-21-86
1-22-86
1-23-86
1-24-86
1-27-86
1-28-86
DILLARD V. CRENSHAW COUNTY
Attorney Time
DEBORAH FINS
From October 1985 to October 1986
Services Rendered Hours
Memo re: proposal to take case -5
Draft, proof letter to co-counsel 5
confirming involvement; retainer letter
Confer with co counsel re: status, 5
strategy
Confer with co-counsel re: schedule, + 3
strategy, etc.
Review (scan) mail from 12/20 3
Review pleadings - Lawrence and “2
Pickens Counties
Review Coffee County motion to dismiss; .5
plaintiffs' response to Pickens County
motion to dismiss; motion to change name
of parties; Calhoun County motion to
dismiss or transfer; confer with co-
counsel re: orders, scheduling
Review Pickens County request for «3
briefing and oral argument; Escambia
County motion to dismiss; confer with
co-counsel
. On
Travel arrangements to Mobile; confer
with co-counsel; review Pickens
County response
on
Confer with co-counsel, prepare
for trip to Mobile
(6
) Travel to Mobile (aborted flight, 12.
drive from Birmingham)
Confer with co-counsel re: status 9.2
of settlement, strategy, work
distribution; review pleadings received
in Mobile (and not New York); consult
with experts; legal research for brief
1-29-86
1-30-86
1-31-86
1-31-86
2-3-86
2-4-86
2—-5-86
2-10-86
2-10-86
2-21-86
joinder, etc. - motion
consult with co-counsel,
witness calls; Pickens County -
review motion, reread Corder cases,
consult Ed Still; confer with expert
Research re:
to dismiss;
Draft portion of brief re: joinder,
venue, intro.; review Lawrence County
motion to dismiss; confer with
co-counsel re: settlement progress
Draft transfer section of brief; memos
to co-counsel re: research for their
sections; cite check, proof
Travel time - return to New York
(rest of travel time used for work
on other cases)
Review Etowah County response to
admissions request; scan Pickens
and Coffee County briefs; letter to
clerk; review court order,
Escambia County brief, Pickens
County page substitution
Review Escambia County motion to sever;
calls re: brief;
brief
Confer with co-counsel re: brief;
additional research
Review Judge's class certification
order in Diggs v. Henry County
Review Pickens County answers
to interrogatories, Lawrence
County appearance, brief re: motion
to dismiss
Review letter to Lee County; motion
for injunction and final of brief;
confer with co-counsel re: hearing
Review motion,
to request to admit;
order;
Etowah County answers
Court scheduling
proposed decrees
cite checking cases in
(61
1
w
2-26-86 Review pleadings: Crenshaw County 5
consent, Pickens County answers to
request for admissions, motion to dismiss;
Lee County; Lawrence County answers
to interrogatories; Etowah County answers
to interrogatories and motion to produce;
Talledega consent; Judge's order
2/21; Escambia County response to request
for admissions; request to shorten time
3-5—-86 Scan Lawrence and Coffee County proposed 2
findings and other pleadings
3-6-86 Review Lawrence County memo on pre- J
liminary injunction; Etowah County
adoption of Lawrence County motion;
confer with co-counsel re: hearing and
strategy
3-10-86 Review order re: Lee County, missing 1
page from findings of fact
3-20-86 Review Escambia County notice «id
3-24-86 Review court's letters and orders; 3
co-counsel letter to court; confer
with co-counsel; review pre-trial
orders in Diggs
3-27-86 Scan motion (duplicate) ig
3-31-86 Review court order; review letter v2
co-counsel to court re: corrected
exhibits
4-2-86 Confer with co-counsel re: status “|
4-4-86 Review Escambia County designations of 4
documents; offer of judgment Calhoun
County; call co-counsel
4-99-86 Confer with co-counsel re: status, «2
strategy
4-10-86 Review mail from Calhoun County, offer 1.0
of judgment; confer with co-counsel
re: response; draft response; review
response with co-counsel
4-17-86 Review court order approving Lee «5
County settlement; billing
3
4-29-86 Process billing, expenses 4
5-5-86 Review court order re: Lee County «l
5-9-86 Review co-counsel letter to court; |
Escambia County Order
5-12-86 Letter to co-counsel “3
10-28-86 Prepare attorney's fee affidavit and 1.0
statement of hours
11-3—-86 Proof of affidavit and hours “1
11-4-86 Additions to affidavit; calls to 5
co-counsel re: expenses, deadlines
11-5-86 Additions to affidavit; add preparation 4
of affidavit and statement of hours to
statement of hours
Total:
BE io"
AFFIDAVIT
Dillard Vv. Crenshaw
State of Alabama )
County of Montgomery )
I, Paola Gayle Maranan, being hereby sworn do depose and
say:
That from October 1, 1984 to September 30, 1986, 1 served as
Project Coordinator of the Alabama Voting Rights Project, a
project of the Civil Liberties Union of Alabama. 1 served as the statewide Project Coordinator throughout the Project's
duration. The Project was - a coalition of attorneys,
activists, professionals and educators committed to securing
equal voting rights for all of Alabama's citizens by seeking
enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
That I am on voluntary leave of absence from Harvard and
Radcliffe Colleges in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I am a
student majoring in American Government. I lack one semester
necessary to complete my B.A. degree. Since October 1, 1984
I have worked full-time in the field of voting rights.
That Melinda Guzman-Moore served as a legal intern to the
Alabama Votng Rights Project during June and July of 1986.
She 1s a second-year law student at Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hall at the University of california at Davis. ‘Noah
Arceneuax served as an intern to the Alabama Voting Rights
Project from June to Septmeber of 1986. He is a student at
the University of Georgia.
That the Alabama Voting Rights Project of the Civil Liberties
Union of Alabama expended three-hundred and elghty-two (382)
hours of "its ‘time working on the above-styled case. As
Project Coordinator, I expended two-hundred and ninety-nine
and one-half (299.5) hours working on this litigation;
Melinda Guzman-Moore and Noah Arceneaux, interns who assisted
with the litigation and were under my direct supervision,
expended the remainder of eighty-two and one-half hours
(82.5). The hours are divisible as such:
Affidavit of Pao Q® Mar.anan
Dillard Vv. Ct enshaw
Page Two
Regarding the remedy hearing for Lawrence, Pickens and
Calhoun counties:
Paola Gayle Maranan - thirty-seven (37) hours
Melinda Guzman-Moore - five (5) hours
These hours were spent preparing a survey regarding the
methods of election used to elect county chairpersons in each
of Alabama's sixty-seven (67) counties.
Regarding the settlement hearing for Etowah and Talladega
counties:
Paola Gayle Maranan - eleven (11) hours
These hours were spent contacting the client group,
contacting and preparing witnesses for the hearing, and
attending the hearing.
Regarding the matter of Pickens County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - seventy-nine (79) hours
Melinda Guzman-Moore - fifty-four and one-half (54.5) hours
These hours were spent gathering election returns and census
information, developing and drawing redistricting plans,
conducting a house count of selected areas of the county,
interviewing potential witnesses and preparing legal memos.
Regarding the matter of Lawrence County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - nineteen (19) hours
Regarding the matter of Talladega County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - seventeen (17) hours
Noah Arceneaux - two (2) hours
Regarding the matter of Calhoun County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - nineteen and one-half (19.5) hours
Regarding the matter of Lee County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - nine (9) hours
In each county, the time was spent gathering election
returns, preparing redistricting plans and gathering
demographic information.
Affadavit of Paol ay le Maranan
Dillard v. Crensl
Page Three
Regarding the matter of Crenshaw County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - twenty-six and one-half (26.5) hours
These hours were spent gathering election returns and
demographic information, performing historical research at
the State Department of Archives, preparing copies of the
proposed redistricting plan, and preparing for the hearing on
the motion of contempt regarding the June 1986 primaries.
Regarding the matter of Etowah County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - twenty-two (22) hours
Regarding the matter of Coffee County:
Paola Gayle Maranan - fifty-six (56) hours
Melinda Guzman-Moore - eighteen (18) hours
Noah Arceneaux - three (3) hours
In each county, the time was spent gathering election
returns, per forming historical research at the State
Department of Archives and History, interviewing potential
wltnesses, gathering demographic information and fr pant dni
copies of the redistricting plan.
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madttar of Escamnpla ~
maces +
thre and one-half
(3.5) hours
Regarding the
paola Gayle Maranan
ata
ng historical
researc
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i erforml
spent Pp a History.
These hours were
state Departmen
Affidavit of Paola cdayle Maranan
Dillard Ve Crensfilly
p age Four
That the contents of this affidavit accurately and truthfully
reflect the time and task expended by the Alabama Voting
Rights Project on the above-styled case.
Sworn before me this
fifth, day of November, 1986
vd a2 / 7] leas
Notary Publ; c, State of Alabama
My commission expires 4 0/%
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ATTACHMENT B
Page No. 1
10/30/86
DILLARD,ET. AL. vs CRENSHAW COUNTY, ALABAMA, ET. AL.
EXPENSES INCURRED FROM 11/08/85 THRU 10/30/86
EXPENSES INCURRED AMOUNT
Americian Express-meals,airfare, lodging,auto 2201.08
Attorney Travel-personal auto 1003.72
Court Costs-filing fees, copies 138.50
Court Reporter 1236.95
Experts 43111.96
Lexis-legal research 232.02
Paralegals : 5010.93
Photocopying 3044.60
Postage 514.14
Professional Copying 235.05
Telephone-long distance 069.30
Xk%x Total ***
57698.25
W. Edward Still 864.82
Reo Kirkland, Jr. 233.77
Deborah Fins 199.00
ALL TOTAL EXPENSES $58995.84