Legal Opinion
Deary v. City of Gloucester
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided April 1, 1992No. Civ. A. 87-1691-TPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
TAURO, Chief Judge.
At issue is the fee request of plaintiffs’ two attorneys in this police misconduct action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Massachusetts law. A jury awarded plaintiff Walter Deary $25,000.00 in compensatory damages and $75,000.00 in punitive damages on October 25, 1991 at the conclusion of a nine day trial. 1 The attorneys, Edmund R. Pitts and Edmund M. Pitts, seek $137,005.00 in fees and $8,977.50 in costs.
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The Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976 authorizes the district court, in its discretion, to allow the prevailing party in any Civil Rights Act…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Hensley v. EckerhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Blum v. StensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
- Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Deary v. City of GloucesterCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
- McLaughlin Ex Rel. McLaughlin v. Boston School CommitteeDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1997
- NLFC, Inc. v. Devcom Mid-America, Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1996
- Data General Corp. v. Grumman Systems Support Corp.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1993
- Morin v. Secretary of Health & Human ServicesDistrict Court, D. New Hampshire · 1993
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