Legal Opinion
Loggerhead Turtle v. County Council of Volusia County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 30, 2002No. 01-12164PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Judge:
The County Council of Volusia County, Florida (the “County”) appeals the order of the district court granting attorney’s fees to the appellees. The County argues that the Supreme Court’s intervening decision in Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Inc. v. West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, 532 U.S. 598, 121 S.Ct. 1835, 149 L.Ed.2d 855 (2001), eliminates the catalyst test, on which the district court relied, as a basis to award attorney’s fees in citizen suits under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq. (2000) (“ESA”). For the reasons that follow, we…
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