Diffenderfer v. Gomez-Colon

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• explaining that when a case is deemed moot, \we lack jurisdiction to decide its merits.\
• declining to address the possibility that the case was rendered moot by voluntary action before intervening, independent event and vacating judgment below
• applying Buckhannon to determine whether parties are \prevailing\ in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b)
• imposing a reduction where counsel billed by the quarter hour for reading each docket entry and “at least fifty similarly menial items”
• affirming \across-the-board fee reduction\ when \plaintiffs had billed fifty or more menial items in quarter-hour increments when the actual task would have taken a negligible amount of time\
• answering the question in the 3 affirmative and collecting other cases doing the same

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