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WITTY v. DUKAKIS

No. 93-1238.

3 F.3d 517 (1993)

Paul WITTY, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Michael S. DUKAKIS, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees. Gerald S. Kramer, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Winstanley O'Connor with whom Gaffin & Krattenmaker, P.C., Boston, MA, was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Margaret Monsell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Comm. of Mass., with whom Scott Harshbarger, Atty. Gen., Boston, MA, was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before SELYA and STAHL, Circuit Judges, and FUSTE, District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

After failing to strike while the iron was hot, appellants invited the district court to overlook their lassitude and award them attorneys' fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The district court demurred. We find the court's declination of appellant's invitation, premised on the lack of a timely fee petition, to be appropriate. Consequently, we affirm.

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We need not dwell on the provenance of the underlying suit. For present purposes...

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