Legal Opinion
Leffler v. Meer
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 20, 1995No. 94-2842PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STIEHL, District Judge.
This case is again before this Court to review the district court’s determinations of “prevailing party” attorney’s fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. See Leffler v. Meer, 936 F.2d 981 (7th Cir.1991) (Leffler I).
The underlying lawsuit which spawned this fee litigation involved the 1984 suicide of Mark Leffler, a pre-trial detainee in the Decatur County, Indiana jail. The decedent’s parents filed suit in the district court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking compensatory damages of $500,000 and $1 million in punitive damages for the estate of Mark Leffler, and $300,000 in…
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