United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action stemming from defendants' denial of permission for plaintiff to land his jet at an airport, a partial grant of defendants' motion for fees and costs is vacated where the district court failed to explain adequately how it arrived at the amount of the award.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/10/2006
• Decided 07/03/2006
• Published 07/05/2006

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before: BRUNETTI, TASHIMA, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick E. Bailey, Bailey & Partners, Santa Monica, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• W. Eric Pilsk, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees.