Lee v. Dallas Police Department

How courts have described this case

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

• “[C]ontingency-fee agreements can be constitutional so long as the Office of Attorney General retains absolute and total control over all critical decision-making.”
• noting, “if the government attorney or prosecutor retains ‘full control over the course of the litigation,’ then the right to an impartial tribunal is not infringed by the use of a contingency fee”
• “Even though there is an explicit clause reserving the AG’s authority over the [ ] litigation, the Court may ask whether the private counsel have ‘ever engaged in any conduct that invaded the sphere of control’ reserved to the AG’s office.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).