A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday appeared inclined to fell a timber company's effort to recover $670,000 in attorneys fees from an environmental group that unsuccessfully sued over logging practices in Northern California. But the judges also seemed troubled by three of its own conflicting precedents on fee awards. In Marbled Murrelet v. Bruce Babbitt the timber company says it deserves the fee award because it was the prevailing party in an Endangered Species Act suit.
April 15, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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A panel of federal judges on Wednesday appeared inclined to fell a timber company’s effort to recover $670,000 in attorneys fees from an environmental group that unsuccessfully sued over logging practices in Humboldt County.
But the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges also seemed troubled by three of its own conflicting precedents on fee awards.
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