Legal Opinion
Robinson v. City of Edmond
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 6, 1998No. 96-6399PublishedCited by 321 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises from a significantly reduced award of attorneys fees in a hard-fought First Amendment case. In this case, by reducing the plaintiffs’ fee request almost in half, the district court seriously undermined the important principles at stake in the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1994). Because the reasons offered by the district court in support of its reduction of the fee request are clearly erroneous, we find that the court has abused its discretion, and we remand for further consideration.
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