Legal Opinion
Parker v. Conway
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 17, 2009No. 08-2764, 08-2900PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
CHAGARES, Circuit Judge.
The Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, imposes quantitative limits on the amount of attorney’s fees a court may award a plaintiff who prevails in a civil rights action that he filed while incarcerated. See § 1997e(d)(2)-(3) (“PLRA fee caps” or “fee caps”). The PLRA does not, however, impose similar limits on the amount of attorney’s fees a court may award such a plaintiff who filed suit while not incarcerated. This case requires us to determine whether the PLRA fee caps unconstitutionally deny prisoners equal protection of the…
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