Legal Opinion
Webb v. Ada County
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 4, 2002No. 00-35338, 00-35787 and 00-35842PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALARCON, Circuit Judge.
Robert Webb and several plaintiffs in this civil rights class action (“Webb”) appeal from the district court’s judgment awarding only a percentage of the post-judgment attorney’s fees Webb requested. Ada County, Idaho (“Ada County”) separately appeals, arguing that the district court should not have awarded any of these attorney’s fees as they were not “directly and reasonably incurred in proving an actual violation” of Webb’s rights, as is required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Pub.L. No. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996) (“PLRA”). We affirm the district…
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