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Blanchard Vs. Bergeron

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Feb 21, 1989

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  1. Blum Vs. Stenson US Supreme Court · Mar 21, 1984
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  2. Hensley Vs. Eckerhart US Supreme Court · May 16, 1983
  3. U.S. 87 (1989) U.S. Supreme Court Blanchard v. Bergeron
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  4. U.S. 87 (1989) Blanchard v. Bergeron
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  5. recognizing that other Circuits had different views, the court held that it was bound by its prior decision in Johnson v. Georgia
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  6. S.Rep. No. 94-1011, p. 6 (1976) (citing Davis v. County
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  7. and Stanford Daily v. Zurcher
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  8. we have turned our attention to Johnson v. Georgia
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  9. a case decided before the enactment of the Civil Rights Attorney's Fee Award Act of 1976. As we stated in Hensley v. Eckerhart
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  10. F.2d at 718 (quoting Clark v. American
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  11. Those cases clarify that the fee arrangement is but a single factor, and not determinative. In Stanford Daily v. Zurcher
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  12. a contingent fee arrangement to be a factor, but not dispositive, in the calculation of a fee award. In Davis v. County
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  13. a fee award to counsel in a public interest firm which otherwise would have been entitled to no fee. Finally, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
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  14. Pennsylvania v. Delaware
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  15. All of this is consistent with and reflects our decisions in cases involving court-awarded attorney's fees. Hensley v. Eckerhart
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  16. Riverside v. Rivera
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  17. Newman v. Piggie
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  18. The District Court referred to the guidelines announced by this Court in Hensley v. Eckerhart
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  19. Cooper v. Singer
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  20. Sanchez v. Schwartz
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  21. See Pharr v. Housing
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  22. The appropriate standards, see Johnson v. Georgia
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  23. Highway Express, 488 F.2d 714 (5th Cir.1974), are correctly applied in such cases as Stanford Daily v. Zurcher
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  24. Davis v. County
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  25. and Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
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  26. opinion of the Court except that portion which rests upon detailed analysis of the Fifth Circuit's opinion in Johnson v. Georgia
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  27. Highway Express, Inc., 488 F.2d 714 (CA5 1974), and the District Court decisions in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
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  28. Stanford Daily v. Zurcher
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  29. and Davis v. County
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  30. excessive preoccupation with them -- and with the 12-factor Johnson analysis in particular. See, e.g., Blum v. Stenson
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  31. expansion is all the more puzzling because I had thought that, in the first Delaware Valley case, Pennsylvania v. Delaware
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  32. S. at 478 U. S. 563 -565. Indeed, the plurality opinion in the second Delaware Valley case, Pennsylvania v. Delaware
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  33. exclusively by way of refuting arguments made in reliance upon them in JUSTICE BRENNAN's separate opinion in Blum v. Stenson
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  34. U.S. Supreme Court Blanchard v. Bergeron
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  35. Johnson v. Georgia
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  36. Clark v. American
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  37. In Stanford Daily v. Zurcher
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  38. In Davis v. County
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  39. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
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