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PLRA Allows Fees on Fees in Failure to Protect Suit
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1999, page 5
The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) allows lawyers to collect attorney fees in litigating attorney fee awards. The practice is sometimes referred to as "fees on fees." The court also held that the PLRA attorney fee rates, in that circuit, …
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Attorney Fees (PLRA),
Damages.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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