Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Ass'n v. County of Albany

JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from the district court’s disposition of their motion for an award of attorney’s fees, plaintiffs-appellants (“plaintiffs”), who prevailed in a suit brought under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”), seek a recalculation of the amount that they may recoup. The fee— historically known as the “lodestar” — to which their attorneys are presumptively entitled is the product of hours worked and an hourly rate. Plaintiffs argue that the district court applied an unnecessarily strict “forum rule”: The district court, they contend, required them to…