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SINGHAVIROJ v. BOARD OF EDUC.

No. 18604.

17 A.3d 1013 (2011)

301 Conn. 1

Siriwat SINGHAVIROJ v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the TOWN OF FAIRFIELD et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided May 17, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Bochanis, Bridgeport, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Michael J. Rose, Hartford, with whom were Rachel Ginsburg and, on the brief, Johanna G. Zelman, Hartford, for the appellees (defendants).

ROGERS, C.J., and NORCOTT, PALMER, ZARELLA, McLACHLAN and EVELEIGH, Js.

PALMER, J.

Under 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b),1 a trial court, in its discretion, may award attorney's fees to the prevailing defendant in an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 19832 if the court finds that the action was "frivolous, unreasonable or groundless, or that the plaintiff continued to litigate it after it clearly became so." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Hughes v. Rowe, ...

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