Legal Opinion
Lamar Advertising Co. v. Charter Township of Van Buren
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 27, 2006No. 04-2500, 04-2521UnpublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
We affirm the district court’s award of attorneys fees and the computation of those fees to Lamar and Viacom as prevailing plaintiffs in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. The Township argued that there was no change in the legal relationship between the two parties despite the fact that the Township entered into a consent decree that embodied all the relief sought under the media companies’ § 1983 claims. Because the consent decree changed the legal relationship of the parties, the media companies were prevailing plaintiffs entitled to attorney’s fees under § 1988.
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