St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Montrose Oil & Refining Co.

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• district court has wide discretion in allocating liability for fee award among multiple parties, and such allocation is subject to deferential review
• “It is frequently appropriate to hold all defendants jointly and severally liable for attorneys’ fees in cases in which two or more defendants actively participated in a constitutional violation.”
• “As the case law of the circuits amply demonstrates, the allocation of liability for attorneys’ fees remains an area in which there is no simple formula of universal applicability.”
• “For instance, it may be appropriate for the district court to apportion fees between an active instigator of a wrong and a more passive codefendant who had a more peripheral or ministerial role in the wrong.”

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