United States Tenth Circuit

A prevailing party in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit may be awarded attorney's fees for post-consent-decree efforts to preserve the fruits of the decree. Also, when a consent decree establishes mechanisms for ensuring proper treatment of class members, attorney's fees are compensable for reasonable efforts to ensure that those mechanisms are properly functioning.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2007
• Published 06/15/2007

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, EBEL, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Louis W. Bullock (Robert M. Blakemore with him on the brief), of Miller, Keffer & Bullock, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel L. Wohlgemuth (David R. Ross with him on the brief), of Norman Wohlgemuth Chandler & Dowdell, Tulsa, Oklahoma, (Larry V. Simmons, Tulsa City Attorney's Office, Tulsa, Oklahoma, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.