Order to File Motion for Fees

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Includes Correspondence from Judge Keady to Clerk.

Topic
- Educational Equity
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organization
- LDF
Matter
- Henry v. Clarksdale Municipal Separate School District
Case
- Henry v. Clarksdale Municipal Separate School District
U.S. state
- Mississippi
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 8b73e3c4-8418-f111-8342-0022482cdbbc

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Case Files, Henry v. Clarksdale Hardbacks. Order to File Motion for Fees, 1974. 8b73e3c4-8418-f111-8342-0022482cdbbc. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/871b5573-33fd-4eac-acb2-e9ed28d9cb0d/order-to-file-motion-for-fees. Accessed April 01, 2026.

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     [||ba412984-ef28-4469-85a3-72cffb89c3be||] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MississIPPI 

Post OFFICE DRAWER 190 

GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI 38701 

wWiLLIAM C, KEADY 

CIE ow September 16, 1974 

Mrs. Jean G. Trawick, Deputy 

United States District Court 

post Office Box 190 

Clarksdale, Ms. 38614 

Re: DC6428-K Henry, et al v. Clarksdale, et al 

Dear Jean: 

Enclosed herewith is Order which I have this date 

signed in the above cause. 

Counsel in interest are being furnished copy of same. 

Very truly yours, 

WILLIAM C. KEADY 

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Enclosure 

CC: Honorable Melvyn R. Leventhal 

Honorable Semmes Luckett 

Honorable Hardy Lott 

Honorable Fred Banks 



IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

DELTA DIVISION 

REBECCA HENRY, et al. 

Plaintiffs 

Vv. : NO. DC6428-K 

CLARKSDALE MUNICIPAL 

SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al 

ORDER 

Upon inspection of the jacket file and determining 

that the issue of attorneys' fees allowable to the plain- 

tiffs for the maintenance of this action remain unresolved 

and should be determined without further delay. it is 

ORDERED: 

l. Plaintiffs are allowed thirty (30) days from 

this date within which to file motion for fees enumerating 

with particularity legal services rendered prior to July 1, 

1972, and the reasonable worth thereof, and an ftemination 

of such services rendered since July 1, 1972, and the rea- 

sonable value thereof. Plaintiffs shall accompany their 

motion with affidavits identifying attorneys performing the 

legal services for which compensation is claimed, outlining 

the nature of the services rendered by each such attorney, 

giving the time involved and assigning a reasonable money's 

worth to the rendition of such services. 

2. Within fifteen (15) days after receipt of the motion 

anc accompanying affidavits, defendants shall respond, specify- 

ing the elements of the legal services for which liability is 



¢ ® » 

disputed, controverting what sums claimed are reasonable 

in amount and admitting what legal services are due to be 

compensated under controlling federal statutes and de- 

cisions. 

3. Sworn responses must be made by defendants to 

all statements of fact made under oath by plaintiffs or 

their representatives. 

4. The issue of attorneys' fees is set for full 

hearing at Clarksdale, Mississippi, on Wednesday, December 

18, 1974, at 9:00 o'clock A.M. Memorandum briefs addressed 

to the issues contended for by counsel shall be filed with 

the court not later than Tuesday, December 10, 1974. 

5. The court schedules a pretrial conference on 

Wednesday, December 11, 1974, at 1:30 o'clock P.M. in Clarks- 

dale for the purpose of narrowing the issues and determining 

what witnesses are needed, and the scope of their testimony 

for trial on the merits. 

ORDERED this, the 16th day of September, 1974. 

CHIEF JUDGE a 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT [||ba412984-ef28-4469-85a3-72cffb89c3be||]

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Order to File Motion for Fees

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