North Slope Borough v. Andrus

ELR Citation: ELR 20419
No(s). 79-3193 (D.D.C. May 5, 1981)

Granting defendants' motion for reconsideration of its judgment awarding $59,000 in attorney fees to plaintiffs, 11 ELR 20293, the court increases the amount awarded to $231,000. The test of the appropriateness of an award of fees is whether the underlying suit was a prudent and desirable effort to ...