Mathias v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining the lodestar method of calculating a reasonable attorney fee under § 1988
• \The plaintiff may not win a double recovery for the same injury . . . .\
• “Because the district court has already compensated all of Murphy’s counsel’s successful work . . . we do not think it appropriate to award fees for his unsuccessful appellate work on his federal claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).