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Enhanced Fee Awards Should Be Rare: Justices

By Ryan Davis (April 21, 2010, 7:10 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that judges may increase fee awards for exceptional performances by pro bono plaintiffs attorneys in civil rights cases, but only in rare instances, and has reversed a lower court's enhanced fee award on the grounds that the judge did not adequately explain his reasoning....

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