These large fee awards get passed on to consumers.

The study also found that "neither the mean nor the median level of fee awards has increased over time."

More fee awards against Righthaven are expected.

Neither settlements nor fee awards are ramrodded through and rubber-stamped by the courts.

The fee awards have already set off potential legal repercussions.

The Senate reported that it intended fee awards to be "adequate to attract competent counsel" to represent client with civil rights grievances.

Judges have also been stricter in fee awards, which they administer in class actions.

Consequently, the appeals court said, the teachers were not eligible for a fee award.

The plaintiffs also included Wingfield to justify a fee award of $ 335 per hour.

Courts will often reduce attorney's fee awards they find to be unreasonable and excessive.