Legal Opinion
Peter Morjal v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 19, 2014No. 14-1365PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the district court’s decision to award $2,000 in attorneys’ fees to the plaintiff Peter Morjal for time spent in litigating the amount of fees due to him in his fee petition under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The defendants assert that the court’s award of fees contravened the terms of the offer of judgment accepted by Morjal and that the court lacked any legal basis to impose such an award. We affirm.
Peter Morjal filed a suit against the City of Chicago and numerous individual police officers pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging unlawful search and seizure,…
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