Dearmore v. City of Garland

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff prevailed on basis of preliminary injunction issued pursuant to only one of three original claims
• recognizing that to achieve prevailing party status, the relief achieved must modify the defendant’s behavior in a way that directly benefits the plaintiff at the time the relief is entered
• recognizing that to achieve prevailing party status, the relief achieved must modify the defendant’s behavior in a way that directly benefits the plaintiff at the time the relief is entered
• recognizing that to achieve prevailing party status, the relief achieved must modify the defendant’s behavior in a way that directly benefits the plaintiff at the time the relief is entered
• noting that the defendant’s counsel admitted to plaintiff’s counsel that the city planned to amend the enjoined ordinance “to address the district court’s order”
• finding that a city’s amending of an ordinance after being preliminarily enjoined, paired with that amending subsequently mooting the case, was sufficient to establish prevailing party status for the plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).