United States First Circuit

In a civil rights suit wherein plaintiffs were granted attorney's fees pursuant to the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976 but denied additional recovery for services rendered in subsequent proceedings, the fee award as well as the order denying plaintiffs' supplemental motion for additional fees are vacated and remanded where: 1) the district court used an inappropriate methodology in apportioning the original fee award; and 2) despite the plaintiffs' presumptive entitlement to further relief, the district failed adequately to explain its denial of the supplemental motion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/30/2008
• Published 04/30/2008

Judges

• SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Cerda, with whom Sigfredo A. Irizarry-Semidei was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Luis A. Rodríguez Muñoz, with whom Roberto Sánchez Ramos, Secretary of Justice, Salvador Antonetti Stutts, Solicitor General, Eduardo Vera Ramírez, Eileen Landrón Guardiola, and Landrón & Vera, LLP were on brief, for appellee.