American Civil Liberties Union v. Barnes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the district court “clearly erred in awarding non-local rates without finding that the plaintiffs had carried their burden of showing there were no attorneys” in the relevant market who could handle their claims
• concluding that the district court “clearly erred in awarding non-local rates without finding that the plaintiffs had carried their burden of showing there were no attorneys” in the relevant market who could handle their claims
• stating that fee opponents are required to be specific and “reasonably precise” with respect to any objections they may have
• providing that “the ‘relevant market’ for purposes of determining the reasonable hourly rate for an attorney’s services is ‘the place where the case is filed[]’”
• explaining that the relevant legal community is generally the place where the case is filed
• providing that “the ‘relevant market’ for purposes of determining the reasonable hourly rate for an attorney’s services is ‘the place where the case is filed[]’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).