Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Inhabitants of Town of Searsport
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 18, 1983PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
In a day when dockets, state and federal, abound with litigation invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1988, the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act, 1 this appeal presents the narrow question of whether it was appropriate for the Superior Court to deny such an award where a person had to resort to court action to obtain general assistance from his town.
We affirm the judgment below. We reach that result, however, for reasons other than those advanced by the Superior Court.
The Plaintiff, Hervey Jackson, of Sears-port, on February 20,1982, filed an application for general assistance with…
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