Legal Opinion
Scham v. District Courts Trying Criminal Cases
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 7, 1998No. 97-20412PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
In this civil rights action, Plaintiff-Appellant Lee Scham and his attorney before the district court, MovanL-Appellant Randall L. Kallinen (collectively, “appellants”), appeal that court’s denial of their application for attorneys’ fees. Finding that the court did not abuse its discretion in denying fees, we affirm.
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FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
In 1989, the administrative judge for the criminal district courts of Harris County, Texas, issued an order prohibiting the Hams County district clerk and sheriff from disclosing the “street addresses or telephone numbers of any…
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