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FURTADO v. BISHOP

No. 80-1282.

635 F.2d 915 (1980)

John FURTADO et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Harold BISHOP et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 11, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Shapiro, Boston, Mass., with whom Stern & Shapiro, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Lee Carl Bromberg, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and Bromberg, Sunstein & McGregor, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge, KEETON, District Judge.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This is the second time that this suit for the award of attorneys' fees in a civil rights action has been before us. In our first review, we affirmed a jury award against prison officials stemming from their use of excessive force, false reporting, and suppression of communication against prisoners. Furtado v. Bishop, 604 F.2d 80 (1st Cir. 1979) ("Furtado I"). Among the issues that we considered...

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