Legal Opinion
Hughes v. City of Fort Collins
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 25, 1991No. Nos. 90-1205, 90-1209 and 90-1213PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a district court order denying defendants’ motions for sanctions under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. We affirm.1
Plaintiffs Barry Hughes and his two children brought a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the city of Fort Collins, some of its police officers, and certain district attorneys, alleging deprivation of constitutional rights in the murder of Barry Hughes’s spouse and the children’s mother, Mona Hughes. They asserted that defendants’ failure to solve a previous murder and apprehend the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Frederick Lawrence White, Jr. Benjamin L. Staponski, Jr., and Gwen G. Caranchini v. General Motors Corporation, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
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3Cited by21 opinions
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