Lynch v. City of Des Moines

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding an award of $90,000 attorneys fees for a $10,000 recovery in a sexual harassment case
• permitting recovery because there was a “common body of facts related to [the] successful claims”
• rejecting complaint of excessive attorney fees where city’s obstinate stance prevented settlement of case and corresponding reduction in time and expense
• noting time spent to prosecute the case was increased by positions taken by the defendant city
• stating courts “cannot place undue emphasis on the size of the judgment, but must look at the whole picture” when awarding attorney fees
• addressing appeal of attorney fee award in a state civil rights action separately from the appeal on the merits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).