· 5/13/2008
Lash v. Hollis
Citations
- 525 F.3d 636
- 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 10247
- 2008 WL 2020506
How courts have described this case
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- affirming district court’s exclusion of proposed expert who had no experience with Tasers, Taser injuries, or the specific Taser at issue in the case
- noting that a critical factor for evaluating the reasonableness of fees “is the magnitude of the plaintiff’s success in the case as a whole” (quoting Jenkins v. Missouri, 127 F.3d 709, 716 (8th Cir. 1997)); cf. Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 435 (1983
- “[A] plaintiff’s success in a civil rights case can be measured only in part by monetary success…. Lawsuits like the present case provide a forum for exposing official misconduct.”
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Judges: Wollman, Hansen, Melloy
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