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Supreme Court: State Courts Must Adhere to Federal Rules as to Attorney Fee Awards under Sec. 1988
In a state court § 1983 proceeding in which fees were awarded under § 1988, the state courts were bound to apply the Supreme Court’s interpretation of § 1988. Otherwise, as Justice Story explained 100 years ago in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, federal law would mean different things in ...
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