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Federal Circuit· 3/23/2016

Biery v. United States

Citations

  • 818 F.3d 704
  • 2016 WL 1128079
  • 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 5449

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the Court of Federal Claims had the discretion to use one of the updated Laffey matrices to compute the lodestar amount in a Trails Act case
  • holding that the Court of Federal Claims had the discretion to use one of the updated Laffey matrices to compute the lodestar amount in a Trails Act case
  • holding that the Court of Federal Claims had the discretion to use one of the updated Laffey matrices to compute the lodestar amount in a Trails Act case
  • “Ultimately, a fee award must ‘be adequate to attract competent counsel,’ but must not ‘produce windfalls to attorneys.’”
  • “Under RCFC 59(a)(1), a court, in its discretion, may grant a motion for reconsideration when there has been an intervening change in the controlling law, newly discovered evidence, or a need to correct clear factual or legal error or prevent manifest injustice.” (cleaned up)

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Judges: Prost, Newman, Stoll

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