Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 11, 1983.
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal — nominally by the plaintiff in a prisoner's civil rights suit, really by his counsel — from a federal magistrate's order denying an application for attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, requires us to decide a novel question under that statute.
The plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officials at the state prison where...
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