United States Eleventh Circuit

In calculating an award of attorney's fees under 42 USC 1988, a court must consider whether the result produced a significant public benefit and may consider the size of the compensatory damage award.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2001
• Published 06/27/2001

Judges

• McKAY, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, BLACK and McKAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara Ann Heyer, Heyer & Associates, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• George P. Roberts, Jr., Roberts & Reynolds, P.A., Mark Wayne Klingensmith, Sonneborn, Rutter, Cooney, Klingensmith & Eyler, West Palm Beach, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.