United States Tenth Circuit

The Prison Litigation Reform Act's provision, which limits attorney's fee awards in prisoner suits, does not apply to civil rights claims arising before the victim of the constitutional violation was incarcerated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/05/2005
• Published 04/05/2005

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, SEYMOUR, EBEL, KELLY, HENRY, BRISCOE, LUCERO, MURPHY, HARTZ, O'BRIEN, McCONNELL & TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan H. Levy, Attorney (Barbara L. Herwig, Attorney, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General and Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney, with him on the briefs), Appellate Staff, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick Matthew Waters, Assistant Counsel (Kenneth J. Moore and F. Charles Dunlay, Assistant Counsel, with him on the briefs), Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City Kansas Legal Department, Kansas City, KS, for the Defendant-Appellant., Larry J. Leatherman, Palmer, Leatherman & White, Topeka, KS, for the Plaintiff-Appellee.