Few would consider $2.44 million and $440,000 in attorney fees in a prisoner’s rights case as a bad haul for a newcomer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Following her first appearance there last year, Christine Stetson, an associate in Beaumont’s Bernsen Law Firm, won a favorable ruling, bolstering the odds that her clients, family members of a detainee who died in an Orange County, Texas, jail, would win a final judgment of that size. In January her victory led to the Orange County Commissioners Court deciding to pay a $3.175 million judgment against the county in favor of her clients.
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