Vincent Kerr v. John Quinn and Joseph Ruggiero, Officers in the Hamden Police Department Individually and in Their Official Capacities

How courts have described this case

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• “The function of an award of attorney’s fees is to encourage the bringing of meritorious civil rights claims which might otherwise be abandoned because of the financial imperatives surrounding the hiring of competent counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).