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lawyers who are to be compensated only in the event of victory expect and are entitled to be paid more when successful than those who are assured of compensation regardless of result
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cited Cited "see" Bruce Talmadge Whitehorn v. E.L. Harrelson Mr. Green D. Foster, E. Potts, Counselors
11th Cir. · 1985 · signal: see · confidence high
See Jones v. Diamond, 5 Cir.1981, 636 F.2d 1364, 1374 (en banc), cert. dismissed, 453 U.S. 950 , 102 S.Ct. 27 , 69 L.Ed.2d 1033 .
discussed Cited "see" Nathaniel Dudley, Individually, and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. D. Lamar Stewart
11th Cir. · 1984 · signal: see · confidence high
See Jones v. Diamond, 636 F.2d 1364 (5th Cir. 1981) (en banc) (constitutional safeguards apply to convicted individuals and pretrial detainees confined in county jail), cert. dis missed, 453 U.S. 950 , 102 S.Ct. 27 , 69 L.Ed.2d 1033 (1981).
discussed Cited "see" James Earl Buie v. Otis Jones, Sheriff Frank Armstrong, Chief Jailer Robert L. Hubbard, Jailer Cumberland County of N.C. (2×)
4th Cir. · 1983 · signal: see · confidence high
See Jones v. Diamond, 636 F.2d 1364 , 1377 n. 12 (5th Cir.1978) (en banc), cert. granted, 452 U.S. 959, 101 S.Ct. 3106 , 69 L.Ed.2d 970 (1981), cert. dismissed, 453 U.S. 950 , 102 S.Ct. 27 , 69 L.Ed.2d 1033 (1981); Nicholson v. Choctaw County, Ala., 498 F.Supp. 295, 310 (S.D.Ala.1980); Valentine v. Englehardt, 474 F.Supp. 294, 301-02 (D.N.J.1979).
discussed Cited "see" Paulina Castillo v. Ercell Givens (2×)
5th Cir. · 1983 · signal: see · confidence high
See Espinoza v. Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., 641 F.2d 535, 539 (7th Cir.), overruled, Alvarez v. Joan of Arc, Inc., 658 F.2d 1217, 1221 (7th Cir.), cert. dismissed, 453 U.S. 950 , 102 S.Ct. 27 , 69 L.Ed.2d 1033 (1981).
discussed Cited "see" Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists v. Blue Shield
E.D. Va. · 1982 · signal: accord · confidence high
Accord, Jones v. Diamond, 636 F.2d 1364, 1381-82 (5th Cir. 1981) (en banc), cert. dismissed, 453 U.S. 950 , 102 S.Ct. 27 , 69 L.Ed.2d 1033 (1981); Gurule v. Wilson, supra, at 793-94 (10th Cir. 1980); Lamphere v. Brown University, supra, at 47 (1st Cir. 1979); Wheeler v. Durham City Board of Education, 88 F.R.D. 27, 33 (M.D.
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5th Cir. · 1986 · signal: see also · confidence low
See also Richardson v. Byrd, 709 F.2d 1016, 1023 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1009 , 104 S.Ct. 257 , 78 L.Ed.2d 710 (1983) (awarding paralegal fees) 21 636 F.2d 1364, 1382 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 453 U.S. 950 , 102 S.Ct. 27 , 69 L.Ed.2d 1033 (1981) 22 611 F.2d 624 , 639-40 (6th Cir.1979), cert. denied, 447 U.S. 911 , 100 S.Ct. 2999 , 64 L.Ed.2d 862 (1980) 23 717 F.2d 1105, 1119 (7th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1025 , 104 S.Ct. 1282 , 79 L.Ed.2d 685 (1984) 24 746 F.2d 1190 , 1203-04 (7th Cir.1984), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 3500 , 87 L.Ed.2d 631 (1985) 25 689 F.2d 661…
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Ledbetter, Sheriff
v.
Jones
No. 80-1804.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Oct 1, 1981.
453 U.S. 950

C. A. 5th Cir. [For order limiting grant of certiorari, see ante, p. 911.] Writ of certiorari dismissed under this Court’s Rule 53.