Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison

How courts have described this case

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

• defining “prevailing party” as “one who has succeeded on any significant claim affording it some of the relief sought”
• discussing case in which any award of attorney’s fee would be inappropriate
• interpreting the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988
• discussing cases in which some but not all plaintiffs obtain relief
• “the amount of attorney’s fees [prevailing plaintiffs] receive should be based on the work performed on the issues in which they were successful.”
• fee should only reflect work on successful issues, at least where they do not “dominate” litigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).