White
White v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 SEAN K WHITE, Case No. 22-cv-06143-JSC
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER RE: MOTION FOR
9 v. ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS
10 UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF Re: Dkt. No. 112 ENGINEERS, et al., 11 Defendants.
12 13 Plaintiff sued Defendants alleging their flood control operations, which release water from 14 the Coyote Valley Dam into the Russian River, injure protected species of salmonids in violation 15 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (“ESA”). (Dkt. No. 1.)1 The Court granted Plaintiff’s 16 motion for summary judgment on the merits. (Dkt. No. 81.) Now pending before the Court is 17 Plaintiff’s motion for an award of reasonable attorney and expert witness fees and costs. (Dkt. No. 18 112.) Having carefully considered the parties’ submissions, the Court GRANTS in part and 19 DENIES in part Plaintiff’s motion and AWARDS Plaintiff $279,990.00 in attorney’s fees, 20 $71,125.00 in expert witness fees, and $10,527.89 in costs for a total of $361,642.89. 21 …