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INTERN. SOC. FOR KRISHNA v. COLO. STATE FAIR

No. 82SA19.

673 P.2d 368 (1983)

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, INC., A Colorado corporation; Jack Lawrence Mahoney, also known as Kurusretha, and Steven Norman Schechter, also known as Siddhanta, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The COLORADO STATE FAIR AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION COMMISSION; Charles L. Thomson, Charles E. Kirk, Norval M. Anderson, Tom Haddass, Marelynn Zipser, Robert C. Norris, Dan Luna, Harry E. Green, Jr., Maurice Parker and Tom Healy as Commissioners thereof; George E. Scott as Manager thereof; J. Evan Goulding as Commissioner of Colorado Department of Agriculture; J.D. MacFarlane, Attorney General of the State of Colorado, and Richard D. Lamm, Governor of the State of Colorado, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph B. Rhodes, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellants.

J.D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Patricia N. Robb, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendants-appellees.

KIRSHBAUM, Justice.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., (the Society) and two of its members, the plaintiffs in this action, appeal an order of the trial court denying their motion for attorney's fees under the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (Supp. V 1981). We reverse and remand for a determination of an appropriate award of attorney's fees.

On September 2, 1977, plaintiffs filed a complaint for...

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