Court Opinion

ID: 9463982
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:22:08.83174+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:23.864663
License: Public Domain

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the award of $41,750 for attorneys’ fees and $10,986.05 for reimbursable expenses, but I do so only because Congress has seen fit to require it.
I also concur in the remand for the purpose of allowing the District Court to consider an award, in its discretion, of reasonable attorneys’ fees for post-judgment proceedings. Speaking for myself only I do not mean to infer that attorneys are mandatorily entitled to be paid for time and effort expended to ascertain the amount of, or to collect, a fee. That is primarily for their benefit, not for the benefit of the in forma pauperis plaintiffs. The opinion does not speak to this subject but I wish to state my awareness of the point, which is now left for the initial consideration and decision of the District Court.