Legal Opinion
Ramos v. Lamm
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 15, 1983No. Nos. 82-1531, 82-1544PublishedCited by 627 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves the award of attorney’s fees and expenses to the plaintiffs in a civil rights 'class action in which the district court held that conditions in the maximum security unit of the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City deprived prisoners of rights protected by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Ruling on applications submitted by the plaintiffs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, the court awarded $709,933.50 in attorney’s fees and $32,782.43 in expenses allowable as costs. The defendants have appealed that judgment, arguing that the court abused its…
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