Awards Against State Defendants Under the Civil Rights Attorneys' Fees Awards Act
Author: National Association of Attorneys General. Committee on the Office of Attorney General
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 70
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Author: National Association of Attorneys General. Committee on the Office of Attorney General
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 236
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 1106
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary V. Capisio
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781590332467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwards of Attorneys Fees by Federal Courts, Federal Agencies & Selected Foreign Countries
Author: National Association of Attorneys General. Committee on the Office of Attorney General
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 344
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781604569889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, the general rule, which derives from common law, is that each side in a legal proceeding pays for its own attorney. There are many exceptions, however, in which federal courts, and occasionally federal agencies, may order the losing party to pay the attorneys' fees of the prevailing party. The major common law exception authorises federal courts (not agencies) to order a losing party that acts in bad faith to pay the prevailing party's fees. There are also roughly two hundred statutory exceptions, which were generally enacted to encourage private litigation to implement public policy. Awards of attorneys' fees are often designed to help to equalise contests between private individual plaintiffs and corporate or governmental defendants. Thus, attorneys' fees provisions are most often found in civil rights, environmental protection, and consumer protection statutes. In addition, the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) makes the United States liable for attorneys' fees of up to $125 per hour in many court cases and administrative proceedings that it loses (and some that it wins) and fails to prove that its position was substantially justified. EAJA does not apply in tax cases, but a similar statute, 26 U.S.C. ยง 7430, does. Most Supreme Court decisions involving attorneys' fees have interpreted civil rights statutes, and this book focuses on these statutes. It also discusses awards of costs other than attorneys' fees in federal courts, how courts compute the amount of attorneys' fees to be awarded, statutory limitations on attorneys' fees, and other subjects. In addition, it sets forth the language of all federal attorneys' fees provisions, and includes a bibliography of congressional committee reports and hearings concerning attorneys' fees. In 1997, Congress enacted a statute allowing awards of attorneys' fees to some prevailing criminal defendants.