A federal appeals court has used a Voting Rights Act case to clarify the proper application of the forum rule for calculating attorney fees.
In a case decided with the help of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, “Our fee-setting jurisprudence has become needlessly confused — it has become untethered from the free market it was meant to approximate.”
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