Legal Opinion
Geraldine Waldrop v. United States Department of the Air Force
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 1982No. 81-3077PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in this suit under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, obtained a judgment in the district court for $1,000 in damages and some $6,000 in attorney’s fees and costs. The government filed a timely notice of appeal to this court but two and a half months later announced that it was “withdrawing” its appeal. The plaintiff responded with a motion for some $800 in attorney’s fees incurred in preparing to defend the appeal and in preparing the mo tion for fees. . The motion mentions costs but contains no specific request for them, so we shall treat it as seeking…
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