DARTEZ v. PETERS

Nos. 22-3155 & 22-3164.

SAMUEL LEE DARTEZ, II, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. RICK PETERS; ALEX R. TAYLOR; JASON S. BAILEY; CHRISTOPHER BEAS; DANIEL W. DILORETO; CHRISTOPHER P. MAI, COLBY J. MARKHAM; DAVID RUBLE; BRIAN S. HEDGECOCK; HERMAN JONES; PERRY FREY; CHRISTOPHER BOWLING; ROBERT KEENER; JASON DEVORE; ROBERT WARE, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, and MARK FRENCH; BRIAN JOHNSON; ROBERT W. DIERKS; JOSEPH EHRLICH, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Filed March 26, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory P. Goheen , McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A., Kansas City, Kansas, for the Defendants-Appellants.

David G. Seely ( Lyndon W. Vix and Ryan K. Meyer , with him on the briefs) of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, LLC, Wichita, Kansas, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Before and Circuit Judges.


This appeal involves a fee award to the attorneys representing a prisoner who obtained a favorable judgment. Parties must ordinarily pay their own attorneys' fees in the absence of a contrary agreement or statute. Alyeska Pipeline Serv. Co. v. Wilderness Soc., 421 U.S. 240, 247...

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