Bratton v. Thomas Law Firm, PC

How courts have described this case

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

• approving time spent by a paralegal on drafting civil cover sheet describing the task as “requiring some degree of legal training”
• “Ultimately, the party seeking an award of attorneys’ fees bears the burden of proving the reasonableness of the hours worked and the hourly rates claimed.” (citation omitted)
• “Generally, attorney or paralegal time should not be charged for administrative tasks.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Guerrero v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
  Federal Claims· 2015-06-16

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-09-28· cited 522×
• Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1983-08-04· cited 409×
• Kenneth Spegon v. The Catholic Bishop of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-04-27· cited 295×
• Pickett v. Sheridan Health Care Center
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-12-15· cited 252×
• Carol Majeske v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-09-01· cited 139×
• M.T. Bonk Company and Mark T. Bonk v. Milton Bradley Company and Hasbro, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-10-16· cited 118×
• Dennis Webb, Sr. v. Dick James and Dick James Ford, Inc., a Corporation of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-07-20· cited 115×
• Mother and Father v. James Cassidy
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-07-30· cited 102×
• Schlacher v. Law Offices of Phillip J. Rotche & Associates, P.C.
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-08-03· cited 100×
• Sergeant Edward A. Hairston v. R & R Apartments
  Seventh Circuit· 1975-02-19· cited 95×
• Robert Johnson v. G.D.F., Incorpora
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-02-13· cited 79×
• Bankston v. Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-07-26· cited 79×
• Cheryle A. Collins and Heywood Fuller T. v. Kay Gorman
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-09-30· cited 68×
• Kimberly Small v. Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-08-29· cited 66×
• Emma J. Connolly v. National School Bus Service, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-04-28· cited 56×
• Jose M. Soler v. Charles F. Waite, Officer of the Arlington Heights, Illinois, Police Department
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-05-28· cited 55×
• Virginia Espinoza Guerrero Marcos Albert Guerrero v. William Cummings City of Nyssa
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-12-07· cited 50×
• Gastineau v. Wright
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-01-19· cited 48×
• Joyce A. Zagorski and Laura Velasquez v. Midwest Billing Services, Incorporated, Arthur Eklund, and William O. Eklund, 1 No. 97-1677
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-11-05· cited 45×