REQUENA

v.

ILLINOIS

Citator

Cited By (35 total)

• Wesley Grp. Home Ministries, Inc. v. City OF Hallandale, 670 So. 2d 1046 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996)
  …aware that victims of civil right violations usually are not wealthy people and “[t]he organizations who have helped them bring their cases are frequently not well financed.” Donnell v. United States, 682 F. 2d 240, 246 (D.C.Cir.1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1204, 108 S.Ct. 1190, 75 L.Ed.2d 436 (1983) (quoting 122 Cong.Rec. 35127 (October 1, 1976) (remarks of Rep. Holtzman)) (emphasis added). Wilder, 965 F. 2d at 1203. Given the importance of private enforcement in the statutory framework constructed by Con…
• Laffey v. Nw. Airlines, Inc., 746 F.2d 4 (D.C. Cir. 1984)
  …52 (D.C.Cir.1982) (Wilkey, J., writing for a unanimous court) ("some attorneys may receive fees based on rates higher than they normally command if those higher rates are the norm for the jurisdiction in which the suit was litigated”), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1204, 103 S.Ct. 1190, 75 L.Ed.2d 436 (1983). . The majority suggests that rather than " ‘nickel and diming’ the guidelines” it offers, I should "flesh out” the approach I endorse. Maj. op. at 20. To do so would be entirely superfluous. The approach I de…
• Conway v. Electro Switch Corp., 825 F.2d 593 (1st Cir. 1987)
  …Denial of a motion for new trial will be reversed only for an abuse of discretion, Cazzola, 751 F. 2d at 54; Robinson v. Watts Detective Agency, Inc., 685 F. 2d 729, 740 (1st Cir.1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1105, 103 S.Ct. 728, 74 L.Ed.2d 953 and 459 U.S. 1204, 103 S.Ct. 1191, 75 L.Ed.2d 436 (1983), and the discretion afforded the trial judge is limited from the outset. A trial judge may not grant a motion for a new trial merely because he or she might have reached a conclusion con [*599] trary to that of…