Stephen Ustrak v. James W. Fairman

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• noting that prevailing party in civil rights case is entitled to fees incurred in proving reasonably incurred fees
• prevailing party entitled to reimbursement of fees incurred in defending trial court’s award of fees
• allowing fees for, on appeal, “defending with substantial although not complete success a district court’s judgment in his favor”
• prevailing federal plaintiff-appellee is entitled to fees incurred on appeal to defend his federal victory in district court
• listing cases where appellate courts made necessary adjustments to fee awards “without bothering 18 No. 01-3495 to remand”
• disallowing two-thirds of the lawyer and student hours spent for the preparation of a fees petition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).