Rice v. Cayetano
Rice v. Cayetano
Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
1. The district court “shall accept the [special] master’s findings of fact unless
2. We affirm the district court’s denial of Goemans’s request for a lodestar enhancement. Given that Goemans lost in the district court and on appeal, and was only tangentially involved in litigating the case in the Supreme Court, this is not one of the “exceptional cases [where] quality of representation and exceptional results can, in fact, warrant an adjustment to the lodestar.” Wing v. Asarco, Inc., 114 F.3d 986, 989 (9th Cir. 1997). The district court therefore did not abuse its discretion in accepting the special master’s finding that the difficulty and undesirability of the case were subsumed in the lodestar. See Stewart v. Gates, 987 F.2d 1450, 1453 (9th Cir. 1993).
AFFIRMED.
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Reference
- Full Case Name
- Harold F. RICE, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs Rowena Akana Haunani Apoliona Donald Cataluna A. Frenchy Desoto Louis Hao, Jr. Clayton Hee Collette Machado Hannah Springer Mililani Trask, Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Intervenors v. Benjamin J. CAYETANO, Governor of the State of Hawaii, and Mazie K. Hirono, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Hawaii
- Status
- Published