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GROSVENOR v. BRIENEN

No. 85-2515.

801 F.2d 944 (1986)

Michael GROSVENOR Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephen BRIENEN, individually and as Sheriff of the County of McLean, John Foster, and Gordon Simpson, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Simmons, Heyl Royster Voelker & Allen, Springfield, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

H. Kent Heller, Naperville, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FLAUM, RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

The primary questions presented in this appeal from an award of attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 are (1) whether under Fed.R.Civ.P. 68 the district court must add pre-offer attorney's fees to the award of damages to determine whether the plaintiff obtained a result more favorable than the offer of judgment he rejected and (2) whether an oral offer of settlement made in a pre-trial conference is a valid offer of judgment for...

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