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Court May Reduce Post-Judgement Attorney's Fees Rate and Billable Hours
Loaded on March 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2001, page 21
The Ninth Circuit has held that the district court may reduce the rate of pay and number of billable hours for postjudgment work by prevailing civil rights attorneys in prisoner cases when the postjudgment work is less complex and risky than the trial work.
Filed under:
Attorney Fee Awards,
PLRA,
Attorney Fees (PLRA),
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Appeals,
Consent Decrees.
Location:
Idaho.
Robert Webb and several other prisoners …
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