federal civil rights statutes which did not already contain such provisions. Senate Report, supra, at 1, [1976] U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News at 5909. For purposes relevant here, the Act did no more and no less than codify the case law of cost-shifting in civil rights litigation. “[T]here is nothing in the legislative history of § 1988 which even remotely suggests that the treatment of out-of-pocket costs should in any way change as o a result of the enactment of § 1988,” Gates v. Collier, 616 F.2d at 1279 n. 17. Decisions in the courts’ of this circuit have awarded expenses reimbursements liberally as appropriate to the specific litigation. See, e.g., Miller v. Carson, 628 F.2d 346, 349 (5th Cir.1980) (telephone and postage); Loewen v. Turnipseed, 505 F.Supp. 512, 517-19 (N.D.Miss.1980) (<HOLDING>); Crowe v. Lucas, 479 F.Supp. 1258, 1263
holding that in an agreement where the father agreed to pay reasonable expenses to the extent that such expenses are not provided by any scholarship grant or other assistance for his sons education those expenses did not include loan repayment because it was not one of the forms of enumerated assistance holding that expenses refers to costs holding that an award for medical expenses is proper when the expenses have been incurred but not paid holding that awards should be limited to normally billable expenses but generously awarding among other things travel food and lodging expenses holding that debtors have the burden of proving that other necessary expenses on form b22c are actual reasonable and necessary expenses and that these expenses should be considered in light of schedule j and other relevant evidence