Portillo v. Cunningham

Docket Number16-20633
Decision Date06 October 2017

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  • Howell v. Town of Ball
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Western District of Louisiana
    • January 26, 2018
    ...as the evidence produced is adequate to determine reasonable hours." Id. (quotation marks and citation omitted).Portillo v. Cunningham, 872 F.3d 728, 741-42 (5th Cir. 2017). Accordingly, this Court will apply the lodestar method in calculating Howell's award of attorney's fees. B. Howell is......
  • Bode v. Kenner City
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Louisiana
    • March 19, 2018
    ...Cir. 2003) ).216 Id. at 23.217 Rec. Doc. 51 at 18.218 Williams , 352 F.3d at 1014.219 Id.220 Rec. Doc. 50.221 See Portillo v. Cunningham , 872 F.3d 728, 741–42 (5th Cir. 2017) (citing Combs v. City of Huntington, Tex. , 829 F.3d 388, 391 (5th Cir. 2016) ...
  • Franciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Becerra
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Northern District of Texas
    • August 9, 2021
    ...to the prejudice of the opposing party, such as when relief is finally sought at a late stage of the proceedings." Portillo v. Cunningham , 872 F.3d 728, 735 (5th Cir. 2017) (cleaned up); see also id. ("The discretion afforded by Rule 54(c) [ ] assumes that a plaintiff's entitlement to reli......
  • Estate of I.C.D. v. Beaumont Indep. Sch. Dist.
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Texas
    • March 2, 2020
    ...Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 465 U.S. 75, 81 (1984)); see Harmon v. Dallas Cty., 927 F.3d 884, 890 (5th Cir. 2019); Portillo v. Cunningham, 872 F.3d 728, 735 (5th Cir. 2017). Res judicata requires: "(1) a prior final judgment on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction; (2) identity of p......
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  • Prisoners' Rights
    • United States
    • Georgetown Law Journal No. 110-Annual Review, August 2022
    • August 1, 2022
    ...because claims alleging conspiracy to manufacture probable cause not frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless); Portillo v. Cunningham, 872 F.3d 728, 740 (5th Cir. 2017) (attorney’s fees not recoverable by prevailing defendant in § 1983 claim because no f‌inding of frivolousness); Green v. Ci......