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District Court Must Explain Reduction in Requested Attorney Fees

In reversing a California federal district court’s order that reduced an attorney’s request for fees by 40 percent, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that “if a district court is going to make substantial cuts to a winning lawyer’s fee request, it needs to explain why with sufficient specificity ...

 

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