Win on attorneys' fees in Chicago case

[one-eyed fat man]

After losing in the Supreme Court, and before the case came back down to the trial court so it could enter judgment, the defendant cities changed their handgun bans, and the trial court dismissed the case as moot. Judge Milton I. Shadur, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division then ruled in the NRA case that there were no "prevailing parties" to recover fees, since the only final judgment was a dismissal.

That let Oak Park and Chicago off the hook for paying the the legal fees of the plaintiffs.

http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/8E0L2L4H.pdf

The Seventh Circuit reverses this. As the court asks, "By the time defendants bowed to the inevitable, plaintiffs had in hand a judgment of the Supreme Court that gave them everything they needed. If a favorable decision of the Supreme Court does not count as “the necessary judicial imprimatur” on the plaintiffs’ position (Buckhannon, 532 U.S. at 605), what would?"

Daley's dominion of dick wads legacy stands deep as they force the citizens of Chicago, whose rights they continue to deny, to pay the legal fees they incur from denying those self-same citizens their rights.

[lawodevolution]

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