Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit July 2, 1998, Nos. 96-17277, 97-16237 (Madrid v. Gomez)

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether the attorney’s fee-limitations provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 apply to cases which were pending at the time of its enactment.

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This case arose as a prisoner civil-rights class action challenging the conditions of confinement at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California.