Legal Opinion
Virginia Espinoza Guerrero Marcos Albert Guerrero v. William Cummings City of Nyssa
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 7, 1995No. 93-36065PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
Virginia Espinoza Guerrero and Marcos Guerrero appeal the district court’s orders denying them “fees on fees” for work done by their attorney after they accepted Fed. R.Civ.P. 68 offers of judgment that provided for reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred “prior to the date of’ the offers. We have jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
I
The Guerreros brought a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against William Cummings and the City of Nyssa. Cummings and Nyssa made Rule 68 offers of judgment prior to the commencement of trial. Except for the dollar…
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