78 Ohio App. 3d 731 - Fenton v. Query’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
October 2008
most recently cited
17 state decisions
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Goss v. Lopez · Hagans v. Lavine · Maine v. Thiboutot
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““A claim may be held plainly insubstantial under the test only if it is obviously without merit or if its unsoundness so clearly results from previous judicial decisions that it must be said that the subject is foreclosed and that there is no room for the inference that the question sought to be raised can be a matter of legitimate controversy. [Citations omitted.]” Id., 21 Ohio App.3d at 273 , 21 OBR at 344, 487 N.E.2d at 917 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and (2) the claim upon which the plaintiff has prevailed either (a) was based on a federal right created under a statute specified in Section 1988 or (b) was based on state law, but was joined in an action and arose out of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with such a federal claim that, although unaddressed, satisfied a test for substantiality. Fenton at 737 . {¶ 17} The Krols cannot be considered to be a prevailing party, because the appellants are considered to have”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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