PER CURIAM.
The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
JUSTICE O'CONNOR took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
JUSTICE WHITE, dissenting.
We granted certiorari in this case to decide one very narrow question: "May a court, without articulating its rationale, summarily deny an application for attorneys' fees under 42 U. S. C. § 1988?" Petitioner concedes that "not . . . all cases require opinions...
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