Bob Coop and Rhonda Coop v. City of South Bend, David Shock and Vincent Laurita

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• purpose of Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act is to permit and encourage the redress of civil rights litigation
• does not create “a civil rights fee bank to be liberally drawn upon by lawyers for their own welfare”
• purpose of Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act is to permit and encourage the redress of civil rights litigation
• within discretion of court to award attorneys’ fees in excess of damages
• award of attorney’s fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).