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City of Riverside Vs. Rivera
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Aug-28-1985
City of Riverside v. Rivera - 473 U.S. 1315 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court City of Riverside v. Rivera, 473 U.S. 1315 (1985) City of Riverside v. Rivera No. A-122 Decided August 28, 1985 473 U.S. 1315 ON APPLICATION FOR STAY Syllabus An application by the city of Riverside and five of its current or former police officers to stay, pending disposition of their petition for certiorari, the Court of Appeals' mandate requiring applicants to pay respondents $245,456.25 in attorney's fees, is granted. The Court of Appeals had affirmed the fees award made by the District Court, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988, following a trial in which respondents recovered from applicants a total of $33,350 in damages based on, inter alia, violations of 42 U.S.C. 1983 arising from the conduct of the police in forcibly breaking up a private party that respondents were attending and in arresting some of the respondents. Applicants' petition for certiorari, as well as the petition for certiorari in another...
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