Anderson Ex Rel. Painters' District Council No. 30 Health & Welfare Fund v. AB Painting & Sandblasting Inc.

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• explaining that there may have been good cause for fee request seven times the amount of damages
• noting that permitting reductions for incongruities between claimed damages and requested fees “seems to be losing favor”
• holding district court erred in reducing attorney’s fees on the ground of proportionality where Plaintiff sought over $50,000 in fees for a judgment of approximately $6,500
• cautioning that, although “measuring fees against damages will not explain whether the fees are reasonable in any particular case,” “a comparatively large fee request raises a red flag”
• applying abuse-of-discretion review to the award of fees but applying de novo review to the district court’s legal analysis
• applying abuse-of-discretion review to the award of fees but applying de novo review to the district court s legal analysis

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