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Attorney Fees Measured by Degree of Success Need Not be Tethered to Damage Award
The California Court of Appeal held in a Los Angeles County Jail overdetention and jail-rape civil rights case that when a $25,000 damage award for the overdetention claim survived appeal, but the $1 million award for the related rape claim did not, the attorney fees would not be proportionately reduced. ...
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