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WILLARD v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Nos. 84-6616, 85-5749.

803 F.2d 526 (1986)

George WILLARD and Rosalie Willard, Plaintiffs, Michael R. Mitchell, Applicant in Intervention-Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Charles Sloan Roberts, Ronald Earl Roddy, Roland Leo L'Heureux, Phillip Stanley Trotter, Albert James MacDonald, Duane Eugene Bitner, and Peter A. Vander Burgh, Defendants-Appellees. Paul MILLER and Johnia Miller, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF LONG BEACH, J.J. Smith, H. Page, K. Kilmer, R. Boatright, S. Ziemelis, J. Craig, and S.F. Smith, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted July 25, 1986.

Decided October 28, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Okrand, Woodland Hills, Cal., for Mitchell.

Stephen Yagman, Yagman & Yagman, P.C., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard M. Helgeson, Los Angeles, Cal., Robert Shannon, Long Beach, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before WALLACE, ANDERSON and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.

WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

In these two consolidated appeals, we consider the right to attorney's fees subsequent to settlement pursuant to the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976, which provides that "the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee" in certain civil rights actions. 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Mitchell, an attorney, appeals from a district court order denying his motions for attorney's fees and for...

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