DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This is a prisoner civil rights case in which the defendants challenge fees awarded to the plaintiffs' lawyers for monitoring a consent decree. The plaintiffs retained out-of-town expert counsel, and in calculating the fees such counsel were to receive under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 the district court used hourly rates of $250 for lead counsel and $135 for secondary counsel. Because we conclude that the plaintiffs did not meet their burden...
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