Jean Murrell Capers v. Cuyahoga County Board of Election
Jean Murrell CAPERS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CUYAHOGA COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION, Defendant-Appellant
Opinion
PER CURIAM.
In this case, fallowing a successful suit by plaintiff Capers against the Cuyahoga County Board of Election resulting in a District Court order requiring the Cuya-hoga County Board of Election to make provisions for the filing of the petitions allowing candidates independent of major parties to become candidates for mayor of the City of Cleveland in the 1971 mayoralty election, the District Judge found that the Board of Election’s overturned action was taken in “bad faith” and awarded attorney’s fees to the prevailing attorney in the sum of $2,160.
We indulge no speculation as to what in fact might have been the motivation of the decision of the Board of Election; all we can take into account on this appeal is the record in this case. On that record the District Judge’s finding of “bad faith” is not supported, and as a consequence, must be held to be clearly erroneous.
The record in this case does not warrant a conclusion that the defendant’s conduct was such willful and obdurate defiance of law as to warrant the award of attorney’s fees here appealed from.
The judgment of the District Court is reversed.
How later courts describe this case
No later court has written an explanatory parenthetical about this case yet.
Cited by 1 case
View all citing references →Relies on it most ⓘ
Most recent
Citing references are not a citator: they show that a later opinion cites this case, not whether it followed, distinguished, or overruled it. Check negative history before relying on this case.