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2011 DJDAR 7629Published
May 27, 2011Filing Date
May 25, 2011CRAIG ARTHUR HUMPHRIES;
WENDY DAWN ABORN HUMPHRIES,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES;
LEROY BACA,
individually and
in his official capacity as
Los Angeles County Sheriff;
MICHAEL L. WILSON,
individually and in his
official capacity as a Detective
and/or Deputy of the Los Angeles
County Sheriff?s Department;
CHARLES T. ANSBERRY,
Individually and in his official
capacity as a Detective
of the Los Angeles
County Sheriff?s Department;
BILL LOCKYER,
Attorney General, in his
official capacity as Attorney
General of the State of California,
Defendants-Appellees.
No. 05-56467
D.C. No. CV-03-00697-JVS
Central District of
California,
Santa Ana
United States Court of Appeals
Ninth Circuit
Filed May 26, 2011
On Remand From
The United States Supreme Court
Before: Jay S. Bybee
and
Milan D. Smith, Jr.,
Circuit Judges,
and
Richard Mills,
Senior District Judge.*
ORDER
After finding Appellants to be the prevailing parties in this case under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, we ordered Appellee County of Los Angeles to pay 10% of Appellants? attorney?s fees. See No. 05-56467 (June 22, 2009) at 1, 3-4. We later adopted the recommendation of the Appellate Commissioner, which calculated this portion of the fee award to be $59,258.09. See No. 05-56467 (Dec. 2, 2009) at 2.
The United States Supreme Court subsequently reversed this portion of the judgment of this court. We likewise reverse and remand the case to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Los Angeles Cnty, Cal. v. Humphries, ___ U.S. ___, 131 S. Ct. 447, 453-54 (2010).
*The Honorable Richard Mills, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for Central Illinois, Springfield, sitting by designation.
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