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Nominal Damage Relief Does Not Warrant Attorney Fee Award
The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York held that even though a prisoner was the "prevailing party" in a civil rights action, a verdict awarding only nominal damages did not warrant an attorney fee award to the prisoner's counsel. The court granted the prisoner's application ...
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