Chris Veneklase, Paul B. Mehl, Darold Larson, Nancy Emmel, Jessica Uchtman v. City of Fargo

This case has a lengthy, almost ten-year litigation history beginning when plaintiffs-appellees sued the City of Fargo, North Dakota and several police officers asserting that they were arrested in violation of *741their constitutional rights for alleged violation of Fargo’s residential picketing ordinance. After extensive litigation before a magistrate judge in the district court and before panels of this court, plaintiffs-appel-lees obtained a judgment for damages against only the City of Fargo in the sum of $2431, plus attorney’s fees in excess of $52,000. The City appealed from the judgment,…