Webb

Robert Webb and several plaintiffs in this civil rights class action (“Webb”) appeal from the district court’s judgment awarding only a percentage of the post-judgment attorney’s fees Webb requested. Ada County, Idaho (“Ada County”) separately appeals, arguing that the district court should not have awarded any of these attorney’s fees as they were not “directly and reasonably incurred in proving an actual violation” of Webb’s rights, as is required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Pub.L. No. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996) (“PLRA”). We affirm the district court’s determination that the postjudgment attorney’s fees Webb requested were compensable under the PLRA, because the fees were directly incurred in enforcing court ordered relief instituted to correct violations of Webb’s constitutional rights. We vacate and remand a portion of the district court’s fee award, however, because we find it erred in determining the applicable PLRA hourly rate and abused its discretion in not providing an adequate explanation for its substantial reduction of Webb’s fee requests on three matters.

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In 1991, Webb brought a class action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging…