What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their settlement agreements:
We must decide whether, and to what extent, the publisherof a monthly prison news magazine may recover attorneys’ fees from the State of California and various of its officers for monitoring their compliance with a settlement agreement resolving claims about prison conditions.Prison Legal News v. Schwarzenegger (CA9) (here). Answer:
The work of PLN’s attorneys monitoring the state officials’ compliance was not only “performed after the time the Settlement Agreement [was] signed,” but also “spent on substantive issues related to [the] Agreement.” There can thus be no question that PLN’s pursuit of fees for that work under § 1988 is consistent with the terms of the agreement.
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9:31 AM
James Chasse is why younger attorneys like me will bother when we're done being assistant public defenders.
The good news is that I don't listen to many of the old-timers unless they're talking about trial strategy, war stories, or scotch.
10:44 AM
Whoops! The above comment was supposed to be under "Loud Music and Arguable Probable Cause".
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