Wood v. University of Southern Mississippi

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• holding that neither 28 U.S.C. § 1331 nor 28 U.S.C. § 1343 create an independent basis for federal jurisdiction, rather “only serves to confer jurisdiction where a federal cause of action is provided by one of the substantive sections of the Civil Rights Act”
• noting traditional federal rule denying attorney’s fees to pro se litigants
• “The appellees [attorney pro se defendants] have actually suffered pecuniary loss, since they have been required to take time away from their practices to prepare and defend the suit.”
• “The appellees [lawyer pro se defendants] have actually suffered pecuniary loss, since they have been required to take time away from their practices to prepare and defend the suit.”
• remand proper where district court fails to consider Kerr factors
• where in a Title VII action, the court adopted the fee standards set out in Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., 526 F.2d 67 (CA9 1975), cert. denied 425 U.S. 951, 96 S.Ct. 1726, 48 L.Ed.2d 195 (1976), an LMRDA action

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