Andy Montanez v. Joseph Simon

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• holding that the district court need not “make up for the lawyers’ lack of documentation” in a bill of costs
• holding that district court properly disregarded “conclusory affidavit * * * merely opining on the reasonableness of another attorney’s fees”
• holding that the “most important of [the] factors” a district court considers in adjusting the lodestar “is the degree of success on the merits”
• holding that the \most important of [the] factors\ a district court considers in adjusting the lodestar \is the degree of success on the merits\
• holding that district court properly disregarded “affidavits from other Chicago attorneys, which only attested that [plaintiff’s] lawyers were well qualified and that their fees were reasonable”
• holding that the district court was free to disregard fee agreements involving different markets

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).