Williams v. City of Carl Junction, Mo.

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing award of fees to prevailing defendant as abuse of discretion where the plaintiff was unsuccessful, but his case presented “colorable arguments that were not frivolous or unreasonable”
• A prevailing defendant “is entitled to attorney’s fees only in very narrow circumstances.”
• award of attorney’s fees for 1983 lawsuit appropriate where plaintiffs’ claims are groundless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).