Shapiro v. Chapman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that appel lants in that case “would not have been able to recover twice for the same tort merely because the wrong gave rise to alternative theories of recovery,” if a prior recovery had awarded all the remedy that a latter recovery would have provided
• “The trier of fact is not bound to accept the testimony of any witness even if it is uncontradicted.”
• plaintiffs “would not have been permitted to recover twice for the same tort merely because the wrong gave rise to alternative theories of recovery”
• the prevailing party in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is entitled to attorney’s fees even if they “were represented by a publically funded, nonprofit law office.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).