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Farrar Vs. Hobby
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- Oct 07, 1992
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U.S. 103 (1992) October Term, 1992 Syllabus Farrar Et Al., Coadministrators of Estate of Farrar, Deceased V. HobbySearch
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between the parties by modifying the defendant's behavior in a way that directly benefits the plaintiff. Hewitt v. HelmsSearch
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Texas State Teachers Assn. v. GarlandSearch
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Independent School Dist., 489 U. S. 782. Here, petitioners were entitled to nominal damages under Carey v. PiphusSearch
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on the litigation as a whole may be excessive if a plaintiff achieves only partial or limited success. Hensley v. EckerhartSearch
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Id., at A-6. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part. Farrar v. CainSearch
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the fee award on August 31, 1990. A divided Fifth Circuit panel reversed the fee award. Es tate of Farrar v. CainSearch
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F.2d 1311 (1991). After reviewing our decisions in Hewitt v. HelmsSearch
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U. S. 755 (1987), Rhodes v. StewartSearch
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U. S. 1 (1988) (per curiam), and Texas State Teachers Assn. v. GarlandSearch
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made clear that Joseph Farrar alone was to receive nominal damages for violation of his due process rights, Farrar v. CainSearch
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for the Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits. 941 F. 2d, at 1316-1317, and nn. 22 and 26. See Ruggiero v. KrzeminskiSearch
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Coleman v. TurnerSearch
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Scofield v. HillsboroughSearch
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Nephew v. AuroraSearch
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Garner v. Wal-MartSearch
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and held that a nominal damages award does confer prevailing party status on a civil rights plaintiff. Domegan v. PonteSearch
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Romberg v. NicholsSearch
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C. J., concurring). The Fourth Circuit has adopted a position consistent with the Fifth Circuit's. Law rence v. HintonSearch
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Spencer v. GeneralSearch
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U. S. 424 , 433 (1983) (quoting Nadeau v. HelgemoeSearch
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Ken tucky v. GrahamSearch
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S. 159 , 165 (1985). We have elaborated on the definition of prevailing party in three recent cases. In Hewitt v. HelmsSearch
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Id., at 761 (emphasis omitted). In Rhodes v. StewartSearch
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Ibid. 3 3 Similarly, the plaintiff in Hewitt v. HelmsSearch
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hardly render him, 111 Finally, in Texas State Teachers Assn. v. GarlandSearch
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whom fees are sought, Hewitt, supra, at 760, or comparable relief through a consent decree or settlement, Maher v. GagneSearch
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suit absent proof of actual injury. Id., at 264. Accord, Memphis Community School Dist. v. StachuraSearch
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neither enters judgment for defendant on the merits nor declares the defendant's legal immunity to suit. Cf. Kentucky v. GrahamSearch
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Supreme Court of Va. v. ConsumersSearch
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of a fee award under Hensley v. EckerhartSearch
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Hensley, supra, at 436. Accord, Marek v. ChesnySearch
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Riverside v. RiveraSearch
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Memphis Community School Dist. v. StachuraSearch
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prevailing party in certain civil rights cases, a practice this Court had disapproved in Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. WildernessSearch
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plaintiffs who, although technically prevailing parties, had achieved only de minimis success. See, e. g., Tatum v. MortonSearch
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see also Mills v. ElectricSearch
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quoting Bosch v. MeekerSearch
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cf. Ruckelshaus v. SierraSearch
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Congress did not intend to restore every detail of pre-Alyeska practice, see West Virginia Univ. Hospitals, Inc. v. CaseySearch
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a prevailing party costs under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54 (d) where the victory was purely technical. Lewis v. PenningtonSearch
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Syllabus Farrar Et Al., Coadministrators of Estate of Farrar, Deceased V. HobbySearch
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Farrar v. CainSearch
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of Farrar v. CainSearch
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and Texas State Teachers Assn. v. GarlandSearch
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