Legal Opinion
Rio Grande Sun v. Jemez Mountains Public School District
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided August 2, 2012No. 33,634; Docket No. 30,698PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRY, Judge.
{1} In this case filed under the Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA), NMSA 1978, §§ 14-2-1 to -12 (1947, as amended through 2011), we review the district court’s reduction of Plaintiffs’ requested attorney fees from $30,676.50 to $5000. Because the district court did not meaningfully consider the evidence in support of the request for fees and because it did not employ an objective assessment of the amount of fees reasonably necessary to successfully prosecute the case, we reverse the $5000 award and remand for recalculation utilizing the lodestar method. We also…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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