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Ninth Circuit: Prevailing Civil Rights Defendant Entitled to Recover Attorney Fees Only with Respect to Work Attributable Exclusively to Frivolous Claims
A divided Ninth Circuit panel has held that, in a civil rights action with multiple claims, only some of which are groundless, a prevailing defendant is entitled to recover only those attorney fees and costs attributable exclusively to defending against plaintiff's frivolous claims. Moreover, the burden of establishing such entitlement ...
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