Gay Officers Action League v. Puerto Rico

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “the mere fact that more than one lawyer toils on the same general task does not necessarily constitute excessive staffing”
• reasoning that, after engaging in litigation tactics “forcing the plaintiffs to respond,” a defendant cannot be heard “to castigate the plaintiffs” for their “excessive” response
• noting that in the abstract, securing injunction against moribund statute or regulation constitutes de minimis success not worthy of prevailing party status, but declining to find such a standard satisfied in that case
• noting that “obtaining equitable relief does not automatically confer prevailing party status” and determining that “an inquiring court must always make a qualitative inquiry of the relief obtained.”
• explaining that district court abuses its discretion by including improper factor in decisional calculus
• awarding $176,888.26 in fees and costs to plaintiffs who successfully challenged anachronistic regulation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).