Legal Opinion
Halderman Ex Rel. Halderman v. Pennhurst State School & Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 2, 1995No. 94-1674UnknownCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
WEIS, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from the inclusion of specific items in a grant of attorneys’ fees and expenses growing out of a contempt proceeding, we hold that no payment is due for time spent on public relations efforts. Thus, we will disallow those fees as well as those for duplicative work. Other claims that were not supported by evidence at a hearing on fees or that were improperly inflated because the tasks performed were easily delegable to personnel with substantially lower hourly rates, will also be denied.
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Halderman v. Pennhurst State School & HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1995