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PLRA Attorney Fee-Award Criteria "Directly Incurred" and "Degree Of Success" Explained
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2005, page 36
PLRA Attorney Fee-Award Criteria "Directly Incurred" and "Degree Of Success" Explainedby John E. Dannenberg
After a successful jailhouse lawyer retaliation suit (see: PLN, March 2003, p.20, $90,169 Plus Injunction In California Retaliation Suit), California prison official defendants appealed the award of post-Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) attorney fees. The ...
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