Legal Opinion
Witty v. Dukakis
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 2, 1993No. 93-1238PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
After failing to strike while the iron was hot, appellants invited the district court to overlook their lassitude and award them attorneys’ fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The district court demurred. We find the court’s declination of appellant’s invitation, premised on the lack of a timely fee petition, to be appropriate. Consequently, we affirm.
I
We need not dwell on the provenance of the underlying suit. For present purposes, it suffices merely to say that parents of sevéral mentally and physically handicapped children brought suit in a Massachusetts state court charging…
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