Award of attorney’s fees and sanctions against former police officers in their civil rights suit
Lamboy-Ortiz v. Ortiz-Velez, 09-1640, concerned a challenge to the district court’s grant of $130,000 in attorney’s fees and over $60,000 in sanctions against plaintiffs and their counse, in former police officers’ suit against a mayor and various members of a police department, each of whom belong to the opposition Popular Democratic Party (PDP), in Puerto Rico, claiming that defendants conspired to deprive them of their civil rights and effectively remove them from the local police force.
Related Link:
- Read the First Circuit’s Ful Decision in Lamboy-Ortiz v. Ortiz-Velez, 09-1640
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