Albert Farbotko v. Clinton County Of New York

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• explaining that district courts must ground their rate determinations in the evidentiary record rather than relying on assumptions based on the proof submitted
• courts may take “judicial notice of the rates awarded in prior cases and [rely on their] own familiarity with the rates prevailing in the district”
• district courts should not simply “recycl[e] rates awarded in prior cases without considering whether they continue to prevail”
• “The district court is in closer 21 proximity to and has greater experience with the relevant 22 community whose prevailing market rate it is determining.”
• “The district court is in closer 11 proximity to and has greater experience with the relevant 12 community whose prevailing market rate it is determining.”
• district courts must ground rate determinations in the evidentiary record rather than assumptions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).