Legal Opinion
Clark v. City of Los Angeles
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 29, 1986No. Nos. 85-6343, 85-6382PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
In these consolidated appeals, both sides asked us to review the district court’s award of $87,360 in attorney’s fees to plaintiffs’ counsel under 42 U.S.C. § 1988.
BACKGROUND
In February 1977, plaintiffs Ruth Clark and Charles Bunker filed this civil rights action against the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department and various individuals. The dispute involved plaintiffs’ operation of open-air retail businesses on Ocean Front Walk at Venice Beach, California. Plaintiffs claimed that defendants denied them due process of law by discriminatorily and…
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