Hatcher v. Consolidated City of Indianapolis

ORDER

When this panel first saw Lee Hatcher’s case against the City of Indianapolis and various individual defendants, he was complaining about the way in which the district court had calculated the attorneys’ fees to which he was entitled as a result of his recovery of $100,000 in settlement of his claims. See Hatcher v. Consol. City of Indianapolis, 323 F.3d 513 (7th Cir.2003). In their settlement agreement, the parties had specifically designated Magistrate Judge Shields as the individual judicial officer who would be responsible for calculating the fee award. Id. at 515. We held that the…