Bradley v. School Bd. of Richmond

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that, in some circumstances, “[t]o delay a fee award until the entire litigation is concluded” may be to “work substantial hardship on plaintiffs and their counsel”
• holding that the law in effect at the time of decision must be applied unless doing so would result in manifest injustice or there is a statutory directive to the contrary
• noting that the plaintiffs had brought the school board \into compliance with its constitutional mandate\
• noting that the plaintiffs had brought the school board “into compliance with its constitutional mandate”
• recognizing that, in some circumstances, “[t]o delay a fee award until the entire litigation is concluded” may be to “work substantial hardship on plaintiffs and their counsel”
• concluding that title I of 1984 Act applies to pending cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).