United States Seventh Circuit
Robinson v. City of Harvey, 09-2434
In plaintiff's supplemental request for attorneys' fees, seeking compensation for legal work performed to defend against a city's appeal of a 2002 jury verdict against the city and a police officer, district court's award of $277,462 in attorneys' fees is reversed where: 1) the first two items on plaintiff's supplemental bill concern legal work that affected his legal rights regarding the police officer, of which the city is not responsible; and 2) plaintiff's request for supplemental fees is untimely as under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(d)(2)(B)(i), a litigant has 14 days from entry of judgment to seek an award of fees and plaintiff took more than 1,250 days.
Appellate Information
- Argued 05/21/2010
- Decided 08/06/2010
- Published 08/06/2010
Judges
Court
- United States Seventh Circuit