Legal Opinion
Reuben Palmer v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 14, 1987No. 84-2943PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The City of Chicago has appealed from an order that it pay $113,000 in interim attorney’s fees to the plaintiffs in this civil rights case. The award of fees was made under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 1988, which authorizes the award of reasonable attorney’s fees to “prevailing” parties. The question we are asked to decide is whether, for purposes of section 1988, you can win by losing. But we cannot reach that question without first satisfying ourselves that the order to pay is appealable.
The suit is a class action under section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42…
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