Legal Opinion
Michael Grosvenor v. Stephen Brienen, Individually and as Sheriff of the County of McLean John Foster, and Gordon Simpson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 17, 1986No. 85-2515PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.
The primary questions presented in this appeal from an award of attorney’s fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 are (1) whether under Fed.R.Civ.P. 68 the district court must add pre-offer attorney’s fees to the award of damages to determine whether the plaintiff obtained a result more favorable than the offer of judgment he rejected and (2) whether an oral offer of settlement made in a pre-trial conference is a valid offer of judgment for the purposes of Rule 68. For the reasons stated below, we will affirm the judgment of the district court.
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