Domenic Lund v. John J. Affleck, Doris Palmieri v. John J. Affleck, Inmates of the Boys' Training School v. Bradford E. Southworth

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• holding that time spent recovering fees pursuant to a § 1983 action was recoverable
• award of attorneys’ fees proper where plaintiffs prevail on pendent nonconstitutional statutory claim, if civil rights claim substantial and pendent claim arises from same nucleus of facts
• award of attorneys fees in civil rights case to be made notwithstanding prevailing party represented by Legal Services Corporation
• “It would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Fees Act to dilute a fees award by refusing to compensate the attorney for the time reasonably spent in establishing and negotiating his rightful claim to the fee.”
• allowing awards to publicly-funded legal services corporations
• allowing awards to publicly-funded legal services corporations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).