Legal Opinion
Balla v. Idaho
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 17, 2012No. 10-35413PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KLEINFELD, Senior Circuit Judge:
We address an attorneys’ fees award in a class action under the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
Facts
This is a class action, more than a quarter century old, by Idaho state prisoners at the Idaho State Correctional Institution (ISCI). The district court initially “was not successful in obtaining attorney representation” 1 for the prisoners, so they litigated pro se. They went to trial and won their case. The court found, in 1984, that because of deliberate indifference, without any connection to a legitimate penological purpose, the inmates were subjected…
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- Gates v. RowlandCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
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