COOPER v. STATE OF UTAH

No. 88-2022.

894 F.2d 1169 (1990)

R. Val COOPER, individually and on behalf of a class similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF UTAH, a governmental entity, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian M. Barnard (C. Dane Nolan, with him on the brief), Utah Legal Clinic, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff-appellant.

L.A. Dever, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (David L. Wilkinson, Utah Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, Utah, with him on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before SEYMOUR and BARRETT, Circuit Judges, and WEST, District Judge.


LEE R. WEST, District Judge.

This appeal arises from a dispute by the Plaintiff-Appellant on whether the District Court erred by reducing attorney fees which were awarded to the Plaintiff-Appellant pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The District Court determined the reasonable attorney fees under the lodestar method, thereafter reducing the fees by half based on the ground of simplicity of issues and the fact that the Defendant-Appellees attempted to settle during...

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