First Circuit· 11/19/2009

Diffenderfer v. Gomez-Colon

Citations

587 F.3d 445
2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 25400
2009 WL 3855978

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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\
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Judges: Lynch, Torruella, Ripple

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