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POTTINGER v. CITY OF MIAMI

No. 14-13287.

805 F.3d 1293 (2015)

Michael POTTINGER, et al., Plaintiffs, David Peery, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF MIAMI, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 10, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelley S. Roark , Ritter Zaretsky Lieber & Jaime, LLP, Arthur J. Rosenberg , Florida Legal Services, Inc., Dante Pasquale Trevisani , Benjamin Samuel Waxman , Robbins Tunkey Ross Amsel Raben & Waxman, PA, Miami, FL, Stephen J. Schnably , University of Miami School of Law Law Lib G472, Coral Gables, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Forrest Lee Andrews , Warren Bittner , Office of the Miami City Attorney, Scott Allan Cole , Thomas Emerson Scott, Jr. , Cole Scott & Kissane, PA, Kendall Coffey , Coffey Burlington, PL, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before JORDAN and JULIE CARNES, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

In the hierarchy of law, language is king. Words matter in constitutions, treaties, statutes, rules, cases, and contracts. And, as seen in this case, they matter in civil rights settlement agreements which, once judicially approved, become consent decrees.

David Peery, on behalf of a class, asks us to award his counsel...

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