Legal Opinion
Thomas Zarcone v. William M. Perry and James Windsor, Robert J. Anderson and Patrick Giambalvo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 28, 1978No. 679, Docket 77-7509PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
The issue upon this appeal is whether appellant, who successfully recovered compensatory and punitive damages in a civil rights action on his own behalf in the Eastern District of New York, is also entitled to an award of attorney’s fees under the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fee Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988. 1 Chief Judge Mishler denied an award of attorney’s fees in the absence of a showing that the suit had advanced the interests of the public or of an identifiable group. Although we do not subscribe to his reasoning, we affirm on other grounds.
Since the…
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