DRAPER v. TOWN CLERK OF GREENFIELD


384 Mass. 444 (1981)

425 N.E.2d 333

PAUL DRAPER & OTHERS vs. TOWN CLERK OF GREENFIELD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Bisceglia & Jim Hammerschmith for the plaintiffs.

Judith S. Yogman, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

This case, here on the reservation and report of a single justice, concerns a claim by the plaintiffs against the State defendants for attorneys' fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1976).3

The defendants contend that the plaintiffs' motion for fees was untimely and that we have no jurisdiction to consider it; alternatively, they argue that on the merits the plaintiffs are entitled to no fees under § 1988, or to a...

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