Legal Opinion
Duckworth v. Whisenant
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 21, 1996No. 95-9341PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Per curiam
DeKalb County, Georgia appeals the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees in this civil rights case. The County contends that the court abused its discretion in awarding plaintiffs counsel $162,209 in fees when plaintiff sought no injunctive relief and the fees awarded are disproportionate to the $500 recovered from the County.
We have considered the arguments the County advances and conclude that there is no abuse of discretion in this case. The district court meticulously applied the controlling legal precedent to a set of facts fully supported by the record in arriving at the fees…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Hensley v. EckerhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Farrar v. HobbySupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Mattie Norman, Clara Marshall, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. The Housing Authority of the City of MontgomeryCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- City of Riverside v. RiveraSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Hans E. Kivi and Carol A. Kivi, Individually and as Husband and Wife v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, DefendantCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by149 opinions
- American Civil Liberties Union v. BarnesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1999
- ACLU of Georgia v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1999
- Smith v. Tenet Healthsystem Sl, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2006
- Dillard v. City of GreensboroCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2000
- Scelta v. Delicatessen Support Services, Inc.District Court, M.D. Florida · 2002
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