Reuben Palmer v. City of Chicago

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• holding that an order awarding attorney fees \pendant\ to the entry of a preliminary injunction would have been appealable as a pendant order had it been appealed in time to be consolidated with the appeal of the preliminary-injunction order
• explaining that multi-factor tests often “manage[ ] to be at once redundant, incomplete, and unclear”
• noting that irreparable harm would result if party did not receive immediate review of fee award, as fees could “disappear into insolvent hands”
• noting that irreparable harm would result if party did not receive immediate review of fee award, as fees could “disappear into insolvent hands”
• holding that award of fees paid into fund to be distributed to prisoner-plaintiffs was appealable under the collateral order doctrine in part because the defendant may not have been able to recover that money in the event the order establishing the fund was overturned
• holding that award of fees paid into fund to be distributed to prisoner-plaintiffs was appealable under the collateral order doctrine in part because the defendant may not 11 have been able to recover that money in the event the order establishing the fund was overturned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).