Alfonso v. Aufiero

How courts have described this case

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• noting that counsel were free to leave and/or work on other matters while waiting for a verdict
• reducing lodestar in civil rights action cited by Defendants by fifteen percent to account for lack of success on two “heartland issues,” six individual defendants and some relief requested
• considering $250 a typical hourly rate for a senior private civil rights trial attorney
• acknowledging, without comment, plaintiffs submission of “more detailed” descriptions of the work performed
• discussing Nat’l Wildlife Fed’n v. Hanson, 859 F.2d 313, 317 (4 Cir.1988)
• where time spent on malicious prosecution claim was discernible, it was appropriately eliminated as claim based on distinct facts and law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).