Legal Opinion
United States v. State of Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 10, 2015No. 12-6258, 12-6341PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
This is a civil-rights case in which the district court entered a consent decree over 20 years ago. Since then, People First of Tennessee has presented 19 applications for attorneys’ fees to the district court. The State of Tennessee consented to pay every dollar of fees requested in the first 18 applications filed by People First-a total of about $8.6 million, including over $400,000 for the period at issue here. But the State objected to People First’s 19th application, which for the most part sought fees for a contempt motion that the district court had…
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