Legal Opinion
Staples v. Wickesberg
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided November 7, 1988No. Civ. A. No. 87-C-799PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
TERENCE T. EVANS, District Judge.
This is another chapter in the story of how a simple request for attorney’s fees in a civil rights case can turn into a journey through a tortuous legal maze. It is also another example of the time-consuming nature of these kinds of proceedings, a fact I cried a little about in Schirk v. Herlik, 689 F.Supp. 861 (E.D.Wis.1988).
Eugene Wright, the only successful plaintiff in this case, seeks an award of attorney’s fees in the amount of $6,020. The fee request represents 75.25 hours of work performed by his attorney, Diane L. Houk, at a rate of…
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