Legal Opinion
Plyler v. Evatt
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 7, 1990No. Nos. 88-7763, 89-7601PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
The Commissioner of the South Carolina Department of Corrections and members of the South Carolina Board of Corrections (hereinafter collectively “SCDC”) appeal from several rulings of the district court relating to an award of attorneys’ fees in a class action suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Specifically, SCDC challenges (1) the hourly rates set for five of the twelve attorneys who represented the plaintiff class of prisoners; (2) the award of fees to plaintiffs’ attorneys in some post-decree litigation, a portion of which the plaintiffs lost on appeal, see Plyler v.…
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