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MUSCARE v. QUINN

No. 77-1907.

614 F.2d 577 (1980)

Francis MUSCARE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert J. QUINN, Individually and as Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 13, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund Hatfield, Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Linda R. Hirshman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PELL and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and HARPER, Senior Judge.

HARPER, Senior Judge.

This appeal involves a supplementary proceeding for an award of plaintiff's attorney's fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, in a civil rights case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

On March 11, 1974, plaintiff, Francis Muscare, filed his complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Muscare was at that time a lieutenant in the Chicago Fire Department...

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