William A. Wilcox v. City of Reno

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding a $66,535 fee award to plaintiff, loser of a barroom brawl with police, who won $1 on his excessive force claim under 1988
• upholding fee award where the lawsuit achieved the following “admirable results”: (1) the jury determined a city policy to be unconstitutional; (2) the jury further determined that the policy caused injury to plaintiff; (3
• “Exposing an unconstitutional policy [by the police department] does a great deal more than finding a plaintiff’s rights have been infringed upon in some unspecified way. The police department itself, and the community at large benefit from a finding of this sort.”
• “Farrar [v. Hobby, 506 U.S. 103 (1992)] teaches that district courts, in the exercise of their dis- cretion, should consider the extent of success in calculating a fee award.”
• court awarded $66,000 of the more than $110,000 in fees requested
• plaintiff obtained judgment of one dollar

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).