Legal Opinion
Culebras Enterprises Corporation v. Miguel A. Rivera-Rios
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 9, 1988No. 87-1562, 87-1659PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
This is an attorneys’ fees case which presents a novel issue: can plaintiffs, two of whose attorneys rendered pretrial legal services at a time when it was known the attorneys would be called as plaintiffs’ witnesses at trial, recover fees for those services under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1982)? The district court disallowed the challenged fees as a sanction for the two attorneys’ believed unethical conduct. Culebras Enterprises Corp. v. Rivera Rios, 660 F.Supp. 540 (D.P.R.1987). It concluded that they had violated the canons of ethics by rendering pretrial services in…
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3Cited by77 opinions
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