Legal Opinion
Briggs v. Marshall
District Court, S.D. Indiana
Decided February 23, 1995No. NA 90-63 CPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENTRY
BARKER, Chief Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the following post-trial motions: Plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial; Plaintiffs’ motion to determine their status as a prevailing party; and Plaintiffs petition for attorneys’ fees.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Plaintiffs filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against inter alia the Town of French Lick (“the Town”) and two French Lick police officers on May 15, 1990. The six-count complaint centered on two incidents that occurred in French Lick on May 17,1988. The first incident happened after the French Lick Police Department (the…
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