Thomas v. Bailey

How courts have described this case

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• stating that public interest litigators should not be compensated at the rate provided for representing indigents, but should instead be fully compensated \at a reasonable rate\ to encourage public interest litigation
• stating that public interest litigators should not be compensated at the rate provided for representing indigents, but should instead be fully compensated \at a reasonable rate\ to encourage public interest litigation
• finding public interest plaintiff entitled to lodestar fees, but not risk-enhanced fees
• observing in public interest litigation that “an upward adjustment” in fees may be justified when “pertinent law is unclear at the outset of a case” (quoting Note, Court Awarded Attorney’s Fees and Equal Access to the Courts, 122 U. PA. L. REV. 636, 710-11 (1974))
• Trustees for Alaska challenging constitutionality of voter initiative qualifies as public interest litigant
• Trustees for Alaska challenging constitutionality of voter initiative qualifies as public interest litigant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).