DECISION AND ORDER
MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.
This action is before me on the defendants' motion for an award of attorney's fees. The motion follows a jury trial in which all 16 of the defendant police officers were either dismissed on motions before verdict or were exonerated by the verdict from any liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the alleged use of excessive force in the arrest of the plaintiff in 1975.
The defendants, who were...
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