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In The News . . . . 10th Circuit Reverses Civil Rights Fee Award Of $8,000 Based On Terse Explanatory Opinion By District Judge And Occupy Fresno Gains $37,500 In Forma Pauperis Fees In Settling Constitutional Challenges to Fresno County Ordinance Rules A

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  First Amendment Prevailing Plaintiff Entitled to More Than $8,000, Although Jury Verdict Slight, But Not Requested $503,000 Given He Lost Several Claims.      John Ingold, in a June 8, 2012 post on denverpost.com, tells about a recent Tenth Circuit decision of interest in the fee award area.      In Zinna v. Congrove, No. 10-1482 […]

In The News . . . A Plethora Of Recent Class Action Fee Awards And Irwindale City Council Refuses to Pay Fees In Councilman’s Embezzlement Trial

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  N.J. District Judge Awards Firm $2.3 Million In Fees In Eating Disorder Insurance Coverage Case.      The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA), which has an excellent blog website, has reported on some recent class action fee recoveries.      The first one is an eating disorder insurance coverage class action. A New Jersey

In The News . . . . Malpractice Cases On The Rise, Lots Of Mergers/Major U.S. Firm Partnership Profits Up, And Alternative Billing Arrangements Increase

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       Co-contributor Mike’s father-in-law Tom Basehart keeps his eye in the news on articles of interest for the blog. So, with our thanks to him, here are some gems culled from the recent clippings. Malpractice Trends:  Up.      As reported in a February 6, 2012 article in The Wall Street Journal, several legal malpractice

Class Actions/Special Fee Shifting Statute/In The News . . . . $1,468,380 In Attorney’s Fees Awarded Against Losing 14 Named Class Members In California Automobile Sales Finance Act Case

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes, In The News

       Here is an interesting one you do not see too often–named class members having to pay attorney’s fees to the winning defendant.      On May 9, 2012, MMD Newswire posted that Raceway Ford, Inc. was awarded $1,468,380 in attorney’s fees plus costs as against 14 named class members, jointly and severally, in an

In The News . . . . Idaho U.S. Magistrate Judge Rules DOJ Must Pay $2.24 Million in Fees And Costs To Plaintiffs’ Counsel In Dispute Over Property Worth $883,000

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      We thank The Blog of Legal Times for pointing us to a recent article in The National Law Journal on a fees/costs ruling in an Idaho federal case.      There, an Idaho U.S. magistrate judge recently ruled that Department of Justice would pay $2.24 million in legal fees and costs to plaintiffs’ attorneys

In The News . . . . Los Angeles Times Has Interesting Story On L.A. Cities’ Spending On Attorneys Fees, As A Dollar Amount, Percentage Of Budget, And Per Capita

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       On April 19, 2012, the Los Angeles Times had some interesting data compilations showing the annual totals, percentage of city operating/redevelopment budgets, and per capita spending on city attorneys for the 2005-2010 budgets.      Los Angeles was the winner in spending: about $133 million per year spent on the City Attorney, but this

In The News . . . . Nevada Supreme Court Sustain District Judge’s Halving Fee/Costs Award To Two Attorneys Successfully Settling On Behalf Of Brain-Dead Young Girl.

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       We thank an April 5, 2012 article in the Las Vegas Sun for reporting that the Nevada Supreme Court recently affirmed a district judge’s cutting in half a fees/costs request in favor of two attorneys–from the $130,000 request to an actual award of $63,466–who obtained a $238,000 settlement for a brain-dead young girl

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