Legal Opinion
Francis Muscare v. Robert J. Quinn, Individually and as Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 13, 1980No. 77-1907PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Senior Judge.
This appeal involves a supplementary proceeding for an award of plaintiff’s attorney’s fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, in a civil rights case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
On March 11, 1974, plaintiff, Francis Muscare, filed his complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Muscare was at that time a lieutenant in the Chicago Fire Department. He sought a declaratory judgment that a departmental grooming regulation restricting facial hair on firefighters was unconstitutional. He also sought a determination that the disciplinary…
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