Legal Opinion
Student Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey, Inc. And Friends of the Earth, in 86-5927 v. At & T Bell Laboratories, in 86-5895
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 24, 1988No. 86-5895, 86-5927PublishedCited by 180 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This case, which involves an appeal and cross appeal from an order of the district court awarding counsel fees to prevailing parties (two public interest groups) pursuant to the fee shifting provisions of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., 1365(d) (1982), raises the interesting and difficult question (on which the circuits are sharply divided) of how to calculate the counsel fees for attorneys who operate a for-profit law firm that handles only public interest cases and therefore bills significantly less than a traditional law firm. In…
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