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MUSCARE v. QUINN

No. 81-1604.

680 F.2d 42 (1982)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kalman D. Resnick, Jacobs, Burns, Sugarman & Orlove, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jerome A. Siegan, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before WOOD, ESCHBACH and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The question we decide in this case is the proper standard for appellate review of a district court's refusal to award attorneys' fees to a civil rights plaintiff for the time spent in establishing the attorneys' fees to which he is entitled for having prevailed on the civil rights claim itself.

The appellant in this case is a Chicago fireman who in 1975 was suspended for 29 days because he refused, in violation of a fire department...

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