HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
At issue in these appeals is the district court's award of "prevailing party" attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and the denial of Rule 11 sanctions. The original lawsuit underlying this dispute involved the suicide of a pretrial detainee in the Decatur County, Indiana jail.
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In 1984, Mark Leffler, a twenty-four year old inmate of the Decatur County jail, committed suicide by hanging himself. His parents...
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