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First Circuit: Rejection of Settlement Offer Does Not Justify Defendants’ Attorney Fee Award
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2013, page 44
On September 7, 2012, the First Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a $59,787.50 attorney fee award to the defendants in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint, finding that the plaintiffs’ rejection of a settlement offer did not render their claims unreasonable.Three former employees of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ...
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