Corder

AMENDED MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

This round of cross motions arises out of a civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . Plaintiffs Lillian Corder and Roberta Lombardo sought recovery of damages from numerous individual law enforcement officers and from the County of Orange. Trial was to a jury, which on August 18, 1987 returned a verdict awarding plaintiffs $24,006 in compensatory and punitive damages against three of the defendants, Stanton Loder, Keith Brown, and Roy Brown. The jury also returned verdicts in favor of the remaining defendants; of these, it found that several of the officers had violated plaintiffs’ civil rights, but that they were entitled to qualified immunity.

On September 30, 1985 the defendants County of Orange, Cities of Bell and Cudahy, and County of Los Angeles timely made a Fed.R.Civ.P. 68 offer, in behalf of the individually named and served defendants to plaintiffs, of $45,000 in settlement of their claims. Plaintiff Roberta Lombardo accepted this offer and plaintiff Lillian Corder rejected it.

Plaintiffs bring the following motions: 1) to enforce the Rule 68 offer accepted by Roberta Lombardo; 2) for attorney’s fees pursuant…