Dease
Dease v. City of Anaheim
Opinion
Opinion
Gadbois, J.
FINDINGS AND ORDER
FINDINGS
This Court filed its Memorandum Decision and Judgment in this ease on July 8, 1993, and an amendment to that Judgment was filed and a judgment was duly entered on August 11, 1993, granting plaintiff a permanent injunction against enforcement of defendant City of Anaheim’s conditional use permit requirement for adult entertainment businesses.
Plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , the Federal Civil Rights Act. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (the Federal Civil Rights Attorneys’ Fees Awards Act of 1976), a prevailing plaintiff is entitled to award- of its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs as a matter of course. Plaintiff achieved the entirety of the relief it sought in this lawsuit, even though it was not necessary for the Court to address every legal theory advanced in support of that relief.
On September 21, 1993, plaintiff timely filed a motion for attorneys’ fees and costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and attached copies of its original time sheet entries detailing all time expended on plaintiffs behalf through September -16, 1993, and all expenses incurred by plaintiff through September 14,1993. Said motion was also accompanied by…