Fred A. Cruz, and Mrs. Frances T. Freeman Cruz, Movant-Appellant v. W.B. \Bill\ Hauck, Sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, Defendants

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• holding that plaintiffs are “entitled to attorney’s fees for the effort entailed in litigating a fee claim and securing compensation,” so a district court may not “completely deny compensation” for these fees
• “[F]inding that some of the hours claimed were for clerical work may justify compensating those hours at a lower rate, and, in some circumstances, might justify a reduction in the number of compensable hours . . . .”
• “It is settled that a prevailing plaintiff is entitled to attorney’s fees for the effort entailed in litigating a fee claim and securing compensation.”
• “[T]he discretion afforded district courts to deny attorney’s fees to prevailing plaintiffs under § 1988 is exceedingly narrow.”
• “The time spent so replying is compensable under § 1988.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).