Save Our Cumberland Mountains v. Hodel

ELR Citation: ELR 21419
No(s). 85-5984 (D.C. Cir. Sep 16, 1988)

The court, sitting en banc, reverses an earlier panel decision, 18 ELR 20024, and rules that where a public interest law firm that customarily charges below market rate is awarded attorney fees pursuant to a fee-shifting citizen suit provision, the lodestar should be calculated according to the prev...