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ROBINSON v. CITY OF EDMOND

No. 96-6399.

160 F.3d 1275 (1998)

Dr. Wayne ROBINSON, Curtis Battles, Wendell Miller, Barbara Orza, and Martin Feldman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF EDMOND, a municipal corporation, Bob Rudkin, in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of Edmond, Charles Lamb, Gary Moore, Steve Knox, and Barry Rice, in their official capacities as members of the City Council of the City of Edmond, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 6, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Micheal C. Salem, Salem Law Offices, Norman, Oklahoma (Joel L. Carson, Carson & Mueller, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with him on the briefs), for appellants.

Laura Haag McConnell, Hartzog Conger & Cason, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Stephen T. Murdock, City Attorney for City of Edmond, Ryan S, Wilson, Hartzog Conger & Cason, and V. Burns Hargis, McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her on brief), for appellees.

Before SEYMOUR, Chief Judge, EBEL and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises from a significantly reduced award of attorneys fees in a hard-fought First Amendment case. In this case, by reducing the plaintiffs' fee request almost in half, the district court seriously undermined the important principles at stake in the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1994). Because the reasons offered by the district court in support of its reduction of the fee request are clearly...

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