Legal Opinion
Spear v. Town of West Hartford
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided April 16, 1992No. H-90-682 (AHN)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR ATTORNEY’S FEES
NEVAS, District Judge.
This civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Section 1983”) was commenced by a newspaper editor, John M. Spear (“Spear”), and its publisher, Spear Printing Company (“Spear Printing”) (collectively “the plaintiffs”), against the Town of West Hartford (“the Town”), corporation counsel Marjorie S. Wilder (“Wilder”), police chief and acting town manager Robert R. McCue (“McCue”) and Summit Women’s Center West, Inc. (“Summit”) (collectively “the defendants”). On April 17, 1991, the court dismissed the complaint in its…
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