Andre Brooks v. Charlotte Cook Mark L. Mechanic County of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court abused its discretion by telling the jury about the right of a prevailing plaintiff to attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988
• reversing for abuse of discretion a district judge's decision to instruct a jury on § 1988 attorneys' fees
• “We have denied defendants’ attorneys’ fees even in some cases that never reached the jury....” (collecting cases)
• defendants’ attorneys’ fees request denied although summary judgment for defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).