Legal Opinion
Johnson v. City of Tulsa
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 14, 2007No. 05-5064PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
The question presented on appeal is whether a prevailing party in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit is entitled to attorney fees for post-consent-decree efforts that resulted in no court order or judgment. The district court held that such a party is not. We hold that attorney fees may be awarded for efforts to preserve the fruits of the decree. When, as in this case, the consent decree establishes mechanisms for ensuring proper treatment of class members, attorney fees are compensable for *1091reasonable efforts to ensure that those mechanisms are properly functioning. We…
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