· 8/11/2016
Ex Parte Juan Jose Sanchez
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- holding district courts must apply judgment funds toward the fee award up to the 25% cap
- emphasizing that statutory analysis begins with the \specific statutory language in dispute\
- explaining that this presumption has been developed in the context of § 1988 cases
- noting that “surrounding statutory structure” may reinforce a conclusion about an individual provision
- reiterating that the lodestar is presumed to represent a reasonable fee
- looking at “the full field of textual, contextual, and precedential evidence” to interpret a statute
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