United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging a false arrest, the award of attorney's fees to Plaintiff following a settlement is reversed, where the District Court failed to explain the lodestar figure it reached, Plaintiff met with limited success, and the result reached did not confer a meaningful public benefit.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2008
• Decided 04/24/2009
• Published 04/24/2009

Judges

• Before: PAMELA ANN RYMER and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and EDWARD R. KORMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• S. Frank Harrell and Christopher D. Whyte, Lynberg & Watkins, Orange, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Jon R. Schlueter and Peter B. Schlueter, Schlueter & Schlueter, San Bernardino, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.