1607 REVIEW DENIED The attorney fee provisions of the federal Civil Rights Act do not pre-empt a state claim for malicious prosecution by a person who was unsuccessfully sued under the Civil Rights Act.
DEL RIO v JETTON (Malicious Prosecution 1983) 55 CA4 30 [See: 42 USC 1983, 1988; Medtronic v Lohr 135 LEd2 700; East-Bibb v Macon-Bibb 674 FS 1475; California v ARC 490 US 93]
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