WILLIAMS v. ALIOTO

No. 78-2965.

625 F.2d 845 (1980)

Joseph B. WILLIAMS and Leo Bazile et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Joseph L. ALIOTO et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Diaz, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Amitai Schwartz, Cecil L. McGriff, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WRIGHT, KENNEDY and HUG, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court awarding attorneys' fees to the appellees as prevailing parties in their civil rights action against officials of the City of San Francisco and officials of the Police Department. The appellees in two consolidated actions challenged police practices, which occurred from April 17, 1974 to April 25, 1974, known as "Operation Zebra." A series of unsolved murders had occurred in San Francisco, and the...

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