SOTO v. ROMERO BARCELÓ

Civ. Nos. 79-236(PG), 82-350(PG).

559 F.Supp. 739 (1983)

Pedro Juan SOTO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Carlos ROMERO BARCELÓ, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

March 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

José Carreras, Pedro J. Varela, Hato Rey, P.R., Michael Avery, Boston, Mass., José A. Lugo, Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, Peter Berkowitz, Rina Biaggi-Garcia, Luquillo, P.R., Roberto Armstrong, Jr., Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P.R., for plaintiffs.

Richard L. Cys and Mary Ann Clifford, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson, Washington, D.C., for defendants C. Romero Barcelo and Pedro Rivera Casiano.

Pedro A. Otero Fernández, Rio Piedras, and Hato Rey, P.R., for defendants Julio Cesar Andrades Cepeda and Julio Cesar Andrades.

Alex González, Dubón, González & Berrios, San Juan, P.R., for Roberto Torres González, Rafael Torres, Alejandro González Malavé and Desiderio Cartagena.

Hector Laffitte, Laffitte & Dominguez, Hato Rey, P.R., for Julio Andrades, Luis Reverón Martinez and José Rios Polanco.

A. Santiago Villalonga, San Juan, P.R., for Alejandro González Malavé.

Francis, Doval, Munõz, Acevedo, Otero & Trias, Arturo Trias, San Juan, P.R., for San Juan Star Co. and Overseas Press Club.

Rivera Cestero and Marchand Quintero, Juan R. Marchand Quintero, San Juan, P.R., for El Mundo, Inc.

Arturo Nieves Huertas, Bayamon, P.R., for La Asociacion de Periodistas de P.R.

José A. Nazario and Carlos A. Ortiz Morales, San Juan, P.R., for Miguel Hernández Agosto, Pres. of Senate.


OPINION AND ORDER

PEREZ-GIMENEZ, District Judge.

This case is before the Court on the Motion of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, as a prevailing party, for an order awarding the amount of reasonable attorney's fees expended in his behalf.

The Complaint in this case, founded primarily upon 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 1985(3), was brought by the survivors of Carlos Soto Arriví and Arnaldo Darío Rosado against the Governor and several other defendants...

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