Legal Opinion
Gay Officers Action League v. Puerto Rico
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 23, 2001No. 00-1983PublishedCited by 233 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this bitterly-fought civil rights case, the district court awarded substantial attorneys’ fees and ancillary expenses to a consortium of plaintiffs — the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL), Carroll Hunter, Thomas Jeans, and Dr. Rosalina Ramos Padró (collectively, the plaintiffs) 1 — against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth appeals. Concluding, as we do, that the district court acted within its discretion in determining that the plaintiffs were prevailing parties with respect to a discrete claim in the underlying litigation, we affirm the finding that…
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