Peniman v. Cartwright

How courts have described this case

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

• denying fees in part because of concern over growth of a “cottage industry”
• denying attorney’s fees to “jailhouse lawyer” under 42 U.S.C. § 1988
• prisoner with no formal legal training who assisted another prisoner in presenting a pro se civil rights claim was not entitled to attorney’s fees pursuant to § 1988

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).