Proof Of Responsible Business Plan Yields Success As Prevailing Party For Exotic Dancer
You gotta love this one from a January 29, 2014 post from the on-line ABA Journal.
Above: Mata Hari. 1906 postcard.
Tasha Mishra, an exotic dancer, was awarded a $39,000 attorney’s fees award in her federal district court fight by which the government was earlier ordered to return more than $1 million in seized cash in a traffic stop. (The cash, by the way, was found bundled in dryer sheets and sealed in plastic bags.) Ms. Mishra testified she earned the money while working more than a dozen years as an exotic dancer, offering proof she had claimed the earnings on her tax returns and had an agreement to invest the money in a New Jersey nightclub.
We assume the fee recovery was based on civil rights violations, with Ms. Mishra’s California-based attorney, billing at $500 an hour, apparently saying his rate was justified given some California issues at issue in the Nebraska federal forum.
