Legal Opinion
Vukadinovich v. McCarthy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 5, 1995No. 93-1897PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The question presented by this appeal is whether the defendant in a frivolous civil rights suit, having obtained a judgment for attorney’s fees, is entitled to recover the costs of collecting those fees if the plaintiff refuses to pay them. In Vukadinovich v. McCarthy, 901 F.2d 1439, 1445 (7th Cir.1990), we upheld the award of $770 in attorney’s fees and costs to some of the defendants and later tacked on another $101 for these defendants’ costs of defending the fee award before us. The plaintiff refused to pay the $871 that he owed on these awards, forcing the defendants…
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