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PULASKI CTY. REPUB. COMM. v. PULASKI BD. OF COM'RS

No. 91-1750.

956 F.2d 172 (1992)

PULASKI COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE; Republican Party of Arkansas; Nancy Maggard, a voter of Pulaski County, Arkansas, Appellants, v. PULASKI COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS; George O. Jernigan, Jr., Election Commissioner, Individually; Robert Whitfield, Election Commissioner, Individually; Appellees. Pulaski County Democratic Committee; Democratic Party of Arkansas.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracy A. Barger, Little Rock, Ark., argued, for appellants.

William Russell Meeks III, Little Rock, Ark., argued, for appellees.

Before BOWMAN, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and VAN SICKLE, Senior District Judge.

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

The Pulaski County Republican Committee, the Republican Party of Arkansas, and Nancy Maggard ("appellants") appeal from the order of the District Court imposing attorney fees and costs against the appellants under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1988) and holding the appellants and their counsel jointly and severally liable for attorney fees and costs under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. We reverse.

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