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Impact area
- Education
Topic
- School Desegregation
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorney
- Fred L. Banks Jr.
Organizations
- LDF
- Banks & Nichols
Matter
- Norwood v. Harrison
Case
U.S. state
- Mississippi
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 3179aac1-722e-f111-88b4-7c1e527f53b4

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Case Files, Norwood v. Harrison - Hardbacks. Attorney's Fees with Annotation, 1979. 3179aac1-722e-f111-88b4-7c1e527f53b4. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/dd3bf4bf-1c4e-427a-b993-b1318484c7d4/attorneys-fees-with-annotation. Accessed July 18, 2026.

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     [||23a831ec-28a5-4128-ab99-3e2068253bb6||] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

OFFICE OF THE CLERK 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

NORMAN L. GILLESPIE P. CO. Box 727 
CLERK Oxford, Mississippi 38655 

April 25, 1979 

  

Mr. W. A. Matthews, Executive Secretary 
ississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board 
oD. Box 1075 
jackson, Mississippi 39205 

Re: Delores Norwood, et al v. DD. 1. Harrison, Sr., 

et al - No. WC7053-K   
Dear Mr. Matthews: 

Receipt of your letter dated April 24, 1979 with checks : 
enclosed and also your letter dated April 11, 1979 
to Mr. Bill Lann Lee is hereby acknowledged. 

For your information, I would like to direct your 
attention to your letter to Mr. Lee of April 11, 1979 
wherein you erroneously stated the sum of $1,110.78 
for interest to December 1, 1978 for NAACP Legal 

Defense Fund. The check enclosed for this sum was 
$1,110.18. Please change your letter of April 11, 1979 
in order to correct your records. 

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checks totalling $7,212.14, 

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CC: Mr. Bill Lann lee 
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BANKS & NICHOLS 

Attorneys at Law 

318 EAST PEARL STREET 

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI 39205 

  

FRED L. BANKS, JR. 
JOHN A, NICHOLS April 24 ’ 1979 
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10 Columbus Circle : Xo» 
New York, New York 10019 Pa > 

Re: Norwood v. Harrison [2096 © 

Dear Bill: 29192 

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nated in this office was that we would receive 15% of 
the award. 

We would have no claim against any cost recovery be- 24 14 
cause our out of pocket costs were reimbursed to us by 1 0G L 
the Fund. 

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April 18, 1979 

Fred L. Banks, Jr., Esq. 

Banks & Nichols 

318 East Pearl Street 

Post Office Drawer 290 

Jackson, Miss, 39205 

Re: Norwood v. Harrison 
  

Dear Fred: 

This is to request that you advise me whether Mel 

Leventhal had an agreement with the law firm in which 

your firm would get a part of the fees award in the 

above case. I have some recollection of some such agree- 

ment but cannot find the letter or whether it was in this 

case that there was an agreement. 

I hope this finds you well. 

Sincerely, 

Bill Lann Lee 

BLL:deh 

cc: Melvyn R. Leventhal, Esq. 

 



MEMORANDUM 
  

Files April 17, 1979 

Bill Lann Lee 

Norwood v. Harrison 
  

I have checked the amounts and the calculations of 

interest in the April 11, 1979, letter of Mr. Mathews, 

Executive Secretary of the Mississippi State Textbook Pur- 

chasing Board. I find that the amounts are correct, and 

that the calculation of interest is either correct or gen- 

erous by one day, and that a 60¢ error was made on the cost 

payment of $1,110.78. 

Under Melvyn Leventhal's agreement, I think, with his 

former law firm, a portion of his fees award goes to Fred 

Banks, et al. I will make that determination and send the 

amount to Fred. 

 



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CLIFF FINCH, Governor 

Chairman 

CHARLES E. HOLLADAY, State Supt. of Education 
Vice-Chairman 

Mr. Bill Lann lee 

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W. A. MATTHEWS, Executive Secretary 

P. O. Box 1075 

1207A Woolfolk Building 
Jackson, Mississippi 39205 

LARRY TYNES, Durant 

T. M. STONE, Potts Camp 

(601) 354-6187 MRs. JEAN McCooL, Moss Point 

April 11, 1979 

10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030 

New York, New York 10019 

Dear Mr. Lee: 

Enclosed you will find 

NAACP Legal Defense 
NAACP Legal Defense 
NAACP Legal Defense 
Melvyn R. Leventhal 
Melvyn R. Leventhal 

the following checks and their amounts. 

Fund/Melvyn R. Leventhal $22,102.00 
Fund/James M. Nabrit 1,750.00 
Fund - 4,999.44 

and Bill Lann Lee 3,100.00 

and Bill Lann Lee 553.50 

These checks are for the principal involved in the settlement as ordered 
by Judge William C. Keady, Chief Judge United States District Court, 
Northern District of Mississippi. As per his recent order, the following 
amount of interest is being held in escrow by the Clerk of the Court 
until such a time as the interest question is settled by the Fifth Circuit 
Court of Appeals. 

(Names) 

NAACP Legal Defense 

Interest to Interest from 

December 1, 1978 December 1 to 

April 5,-1979 

Fund/ $ 4,863.68 $ 609.84 
Melvyn R. Leventhal 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund/ 385.13 47.88 
James M. Nabrit, III 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund 1,110.78 138.60 

Melvyn R. Leventhal 
Bill Lann Lee 

Melvyn R. Leventhal 

Bill Lann Lee 

Sincerely, 

W. A. Matthews 
Executive Secretary 

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Interest from 

January 26 to 
April 5, 1979 

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and 48.22 

and 83.51 

353.415 

 



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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

WESTERN DIVISION 
OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI 

April 4, 1979 

  

DELORES NORWOOD, ET AL 

Vv. NO. WC7053=K 

D. L. HARRISON, SR., ET AL 

TAKE NOTICE that Chief Judge William C. Keady signed the 

_Amendatory Order in the above cause on April 3, 1979. This order 

has been entered in COB 31, Page 119-121. 

NORMAN -L. GILLESPIE, CLERK 

By: Pasa iy bs mee 
Deputy Clerk = Jan J—~Estes 

= oC
 

Hon. Bill Lann Lee 

10 Columbus Circle 

New York, New York 10019 

Bon. Peter M. Stockett, Jr. 

Box 220 
Jackson, Ms. 39205° [||23a831ec-28a5-4128-ab99-3e2068253bb6||]

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Attorney's Fees with Annotation

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