Katiria´s Cafe, Inc v. Municipio Autonomo De San Juan

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• concluding that the plaintiff had failed to distinguish his case \from the `usual' case where a prevailing civil rights plaintiff is not entitled to attorney's fees when all that he has won is ... nominal damages\
• recognizing that defendant’s failure to renew offer of judgment did not preclude plaintiff from being required to pay defendant’s costs when plaintiff obtained an amount less than the offer on remand
• reversing the district court’s grant of attorney’s fees to a plaintiff who sought compensatory and punitive damages but won only $2.00
• finding the district court abused its discretion when it awarded attorney's fees to an activist who received only nominal damages for a “technical” violation of his civil rights
• determining defend­ ants’ failure to renew offer of judgment after remand did not preclude such offer from requiring plaintiff to pay defendants’ costs when plaintiff ultimately received judgment in amount less than offer
• \Pouillon has not demonstrated that his case is distinguishable from the ‘usual’ case where a prevailing civil rights plaintiff is not entitled to attorney’s fees when all that he has won is a technical vindication of rights in the form of nominal damages.\

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