MARTIN, DIRECTOR, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al.
v.
HADIX et al.
United States Supreme Court.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 30, 1999.
Decided June 21, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General of Michigan, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Frank J. Kelley, former Attorney General, and Leo H. Friedman and Mark W. Matus, Assistant Attorneys General.
Deborah LaBelle argued the cause for respondents. With her on the brief was Jeffrey D. Dillman.*
O'Connor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, and Breyer, JJ., joined, in which Scalia, J., joined as to all but Part II—B, and in which Stevens and Ginsburg, JJ., joined as to Parts I, II—A-1, and II—B-1. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, p. 362. Ginsburg, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Stevens, J., joined, p. 364.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice O'Connor delivered the opinion of the Court.*
Section 803(d)(3) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA or Act), 110 Stat. 1321-72, 42 U. S. C. § 1997e(d)(3) (1994 ed., Supp. III),† places limits on the fees that may be awarded to attorneys who litigate prisoner lawsuits. We are asked to decide how this section applies to cases that were...
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