Legal Opinion
N.A.A.C.P., Detroit Branch v. Detroit Police Officers Ass'n (D.P.O.A.)
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 3, 1995No. Nos. 92-2557, 92-2558PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Chief Judge.
In this appeal, the NAACP objects to a district court award of $11,320 in attorneys’ fees as unreasonably low. The City of Detroit cross-appeals, challenging the validity of the award. Even though plaintiffs eventually lost this fifteen-year-old, civil rights case on the merits, they now claim an entitlement to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 attorneys’ fees because of certain interim orders, later reversed, which were beneficial to them. The interim orders do not make plaintiffs “prevailing parties” under § 1988, and we therefore reverse the award of fees by the District Court.
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