Feaster v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[t]he matter may have been difficult, wearing, and time consuming, but that kind of effort has been recognized in the lodestar award.”
• stating that the lodestar figure should only be adjusted in rare and exceptional cases
• noting that the attorneys for Delaware Valley were part of a non-profit, tax-exempt law corporation, but expressly declining to pass on argument--not aired in the lower courts--that such a firm, by its very nature, is ineligible for a risk-of-not-prevailing enhancement
• involving a citizens’ group which successfully brought suit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Clean Air Act
• noting that enhancement of lodestar can be justified in exceptional cases
• involving a citizens' group which successfully brought suit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Clean Air Act

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