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COOL v. POLICE DEPT. OF CITY OF YONKERS

No. 76 Civ. 1303 (JFK).

620 F.Supp. 954 (1985)

John COOL, Plaintiff, v. POLICE DEPARTMENT OF the CITY OF YONKERS, the City of Yonkers, Anthony Cenelli, Edward R. Carozza, William Drain, William Hayden, Jack Raffa, James Trotta, Lawrence W. Conley, Edward Riley, Thomas Brink, Philip Medwick, and John Does One, Two, and Three, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 26, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, by Jill Levi, Steven R. Popofsky, Jay Topkis, New York City, for plaintiff.

Arthur J. Doran, Jr., Corp. Counsel, City of Yonkers, by Edmund G. Fitzgerald, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Yonkers, N.Y., for defendants.

AMENDED OPINION and ORDER

KEENAN, District Judge:

Plaintiff, the prevailing party in a civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ("§ 1983"), moves the Court for an award of attorneys' fees and costs under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 ("§ 1988"). The defendants oppose this motion. For the reasons set forth below, the Court grants plaintiff's motion.

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