( September 6, 2024, 10:43 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that a city and two police officers are not entitled to attorney fees even though they are prevailing parties in a case brought by a man who contended that officers used excessive force and violated his civil rights during a traffic stop. In a separate, concurring opinion, two judges said that if the Circuit Court is “committed to taking the text seriously” in civil rights litigation, it should “eventually revisit our atextual approach” to the section of the civil rights law that deals with attorney fees....