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WASHINGTON PUB. INT. ORG. v. DIST. OF COL.

No. 80-781.

436 A.2d 1299 (1981)

WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATION, et al., Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 9, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert Hahn, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Judith W. Rogers, Corp. Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before KERN, HARRIS and MACK, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from the trial court's denial of appellants' petition for the attorneys' fees and court costs they incurred in litigation with the District of Columbia.1 The court ruled that appellants were the prevailing parties but had failed to bring themselves within the limited exceptions to the so-called American Rule, which bars recovery of such costs by the prevailing...

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