U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
May 24, 2012
Deputies on the hook for attorney fees in prisoner civil rights case
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies can't escape paying a hefty attorney fee award in a prisoner rights case, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel held Tuesday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies can't escape paying a hefty attorney fee award in a prisoner rights case, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel held Tuesday.
The deputies argued they could not be forced to pay in fees more than 150 percent of a court judgment to the inmate's lawyers because the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 caps fees at that level.
But the panel v...
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