United States Ninth Circuit

In an action for attorney's fees interpreting the Equal Access to Justice Act, an award of attorney's fees is affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part for recalculation where some, but not all, of the government's defenses were in bad faith.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/18/2008
• Decided 09/04/2008
• Published 09/04/2008

Judges

• MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  BARRY G. SILVERMAN, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Peter R. Maier, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants., Gladys Limón, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Los Angeles, CA & Janice Mac Avoy, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson LLP, New York, NY, for the plaintiffs-appellees.