Cortay v. Silver Bay Logging

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Awarding fees at half a lawyer’s actual rate is inconsistent with the purpose of awarding full attorney’s fees in the worker’s compensation scheme.”
• including instruction to Board on remand to award full reasonable attorney’s fees because “[i]f lawyers could only expect 50% compensation on issues on which they prevail, they will be less likely to take injured workers’ claims in the first place”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).