Back v. Meeks

How courts have described this case

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• deducting from fee award pursuant to California law because “secretarial or clerical tasks [are] not compensable as attorneys’ fees”
• listing factors including risk 11 to the representative, notoriety and personal difficulties encountered, amount of time and 12 effort spent, duration of litigation, and personal benefit
• listing factors including risk 28 to the representative, notoriety and personal difficulties encountered, amount of time and 1 effort spent, duration of litigation, and personal benefit
• approving $15,000 incentive awards 19 based on the named plaintiffs’ involvement with the litigation and the reputational risk they took 20 in bringing a wage-and-hour action
• refusing to reduce a fee award for a block billed entry because the Court found the overall amount of time spent on the tasks was reasonably spent
• applying California law; noting nine-year defense on a contingent fee basis supported a multiplier

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