Legal Opinion
State of Illinois v. Sangamo Construction Co. And J. L. Simmons Company, Inc., Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 1981No. 80-1761, 80-2275PublishedCited by 176 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the propriety of the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees and costs, including expert witness fees, to the Illinois Attorney General who successfully pursued this private antitrust action on behalf of the State of Illinois in its proprietary capacity. We affirm the award of attorneys’ fees, but reverse and remand the award of costs to be reduced to the extent the amount of expert witness fees awarded exceeds the statutory witness fees set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 1821.
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Illinois, in its proprietary capacity, brought this suit under Section 1 of the…
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