Bogan v. City of Boston

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that § 1988 did not allow plaintiffs to recover fees incurred in proceedings undertaken to mitigate their damages from the violation giving rise to the § 1983 claim
• concluding trial court did not abuse discretion by preventing deposition of mayor when plaintiffs had not exhausted other available avenues of discovery
• holding that a note addressed to the Mayor’s office regarding a need for a property inspection and allegations that the office had received complaints regarding the property, did not support an inference that the Mayor had personal involvement in ordering the inspection
• explaining that fees are appropriately excluded when “different claims for relief are not interconnected, that is, when the claims rest on different facts and legal theories”
• finding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in issuing a protective order to prevent deposition of a mayor when plaintiff could have—but failed to— pursue discovery from the mayor’s aides, who “could have clarified the Mayor’s role”
• affirming the issuance of a protective order precluding the deposition of the Mayor of Boston where plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the sought-after information was unavailable from other sources

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).