Gilleo v. City of Ladue

ORDER

HAMILTON, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the application of Plaintiff’s counsel, Green, Hoffmann & Dankenbring, for attorney’s fees and expenses.

District Courts may award reasonable attorney’s fees to prevailing parties in litigation to enforce a provision of section 1983. 42 U.S.C. § 1988. A prevailing party should ordinarily recover an attorney’s fee unless special circumstances make such an award unjust. Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 429, 103 S.Ct. 1933, 1937, 76 L.Ed.2d 40 (1983). The starting point or lodestar figure for determining the amount of a…