Legal Opinion
City of Riverside v. Rivera
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 1986No. 85-224PublishedCited by 1,174 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Brennan
The issue presented in this case is whether an award of attorney’s fees under 42 U. S. C. § 1988 is per se “unreasonable” within the meaning of the statute if it exceeds the amount of damages recovered by the plaintiff in the underlying civil rights action.
I
Respondents, eight Chicano individuals, attended a party on the evening of August 1, 1975, at the Riverside, California, home of respondents Santos and Jennie Rivera. A large number of unidentified police officers, acting without a warrant, broke up the party using tear gas and, as found by the District Court, “unnecessary physical force.”…
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