Judge Milton Shadur, writing for a 9th Circuit panel in a civil rights case, says:
it has been firmly established for nearly three decades that the award of attorneys’ fees under Section 1988 emulates George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “Some animals are more equal than others.” In sharp contrast to the near-universal fee awards to prevailing Section […]
Filed under 1983, Attorney fees, Legal writing
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