Legal Opinion
Graves v. Arpaio
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided July 2, 2009No. CV-77-0479-PHX-NVWPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
NEIL V. WAKE, District Judge.
Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Motion for Attorneys’ Fees and Nontaxable Costs. (Doc. # 1640.)
I. Background
In 1977 this class action was brought against the Maricopa County Sheriff and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors alleging that the civil rights of pretrial detainees held in the Maricopa County, Arizona, jail system had been violated. (Doc. # 1.) In 1981 the parties entered into a consent decree that addressed and regulated aspects of County jail operations as they applied to pretrial detainees. (Doc. # 166.)
In 1995 the initial consent…
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