The following excerpt is from Class v. Norton, 505 F.2d 123 (2nd Cir. 1974):
Moreover, it appears to us that the allowance (of attorneys' fees) awarded here, as part of an order granting injunctive relief, has at most the 'ancillary effect on the state treasury,' which Edelman v. Jordan, supra, 415 U.S. 651 at 668, 94 S.Ct. 1347 at 1358, 39 L.Ed.2d 662 characterizes as a 'permissible and often inevitable consequence of the principle announced in Ex parte Young, . . .'
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