CITY OF RIVERSIDE v. RIVERA

No. A-122.

473 U.S. 1315 (1985)

106 S.Ct. 5

87 L.Ed.2d 683

CITY OF RIVERSIDE ET AL. v. RIVERA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided August 28, 1985.


JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice.

Applicants, the city of Riverside and five of its current or former police officers, ask that I stay pending disposition of their petition for certiorari the mandate of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit requiring applicants to pay respondents $245,456.25 in attorney's fees. The attorney's fees were awarded by the District Court pursuant to 42 U. S. C. § 1988, following a trial in which respondents recovered from applicants...

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