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JOHN R. KLAUS
City Attorney
SANDRA M. ZENK
MARK W. F. LINDHOLM
Assistant City Attorneys
September 19, 1980
S EP i 9 1-030
Honorable F. Paul Goodland, Mayor
And Members of City Council
Of the City of Ames , Iowa
Re : Attorneys ' Fees -- Paraphernalia Case
Dear Mayor Goodland and Council Members :
Herewith find the order of the Federal District Court award-
ing attorneys fees in the paraphernalia case. Please autho-
rize payment as soon as possible.
Ver y yours ,
John R. Klau —
City Attorney
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SEP 18 1980
FILED
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA qFP 10P,0
CENTRAL DIVISION
CLERK, U. S. DISTRICT 00::3T
JAY MAGNANI , et al. , ) SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF 10VIA
Plaintiffs, )
CIVIL NO. 80-229-A
VS . )
ORDER
CITY OF AMES , IOWA, )
Defendant. )
The Court has before it plaintiffs.' Motion for Attorneys '
Fees filed Aug. 20 , 1980 , and plaintiffs ' Application for Order
Awarding Attorneys ' Fees filed September 5 , 1980. Neither have
been resisted. After having examined said motion and the accompany-
ing affidavits and being fully advised in the premises and applying
the guidelines set forth in Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. ,
488 F. 2d 714 , 717-719 (5th Cir. 1974) as approved by the Eighth
Circuit in Allen v. Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 788 , 554 F. 2d
876, 884 (8th Cir. 1977) , fines that the requested fees and expenses
are reasonable and should be allowed.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the fees should be allowed
for Mark W. Bennett in the amount of $4 , 015 . 10 , and Judd Golden in
the amount of $2 , 331 . 66.
Signed this day of September, 1980 .
W. C. STUART, CHIEF JUDGE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA.