George Willard and Rosalie Willard, Michael R. Mitchell, Applicant in Intervention-Appellant v. City of Los Angeles, Charles Sloan Roberts, Ronald Earl Roddy, Roland Leo L'heureux, Phillip Stanley Trotter, Albert James MacDonald Duane Eugene Bitner, and Peter A. Vander Burgh, Paul Miller and Johnia Miller v. City of Long Beach, J.J. Smith, H. Page, K. Kilmer, R. Boatright, S. Ziemelis, J. Craig, and S.F. Smith

803 F.2d 526 6 Fed.R.Serv.3d 134 George WILLARD and Rosalie Willard, Plaintiffs, Michael R. Mitchell, Applicant in Intervention-Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Charles Sloan Roberts, Ronald Earl Roddy, Roland Leo L'Heureux, Phillip Stanley Trotter, Albert James MacDonald, Duane Eugene Bitner, and Peter A. Vander Burgh, Defendants-Appellees. Paul MILLER and Johnia Miller, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF LONG BEACH, J.J. Smith, H. Page, K. Kilmer, R. Boatright, S. Ziemelis, J. Craig, and S.F. Smith, Defendants-Appellees. Nos. 84-6616, 85-5749. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued Dec. 2, 1985. Submitted July 25, 1986. Decided Oct. 28, 1986. Fred Okrand, Woodland Hills, Cal., for Mitchell. Stephen Yagman, Yagman & Yagman, P.C., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. Richard M. Helgeson, Los Angeles, Cal., Robert Shannon, Long Beach, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before WALLACE, ANDERSON and NORRIS, Circuit Judges. WALLACE, Circuit Judge: 1 In these two consolidated appeals, we consider the right to attorney's fees subsequent to settlement pursuant to the Civil…