Burke v. McDonald

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘Where, as here, a claim of instructional error challenges the very basis for instructing or refusing to instruct on a particular subject, we review that claim of error de novo.”
• “ ‘[w]e will uphold a jury award if it is a result of “any rational appraisal or estimate of the damages that could be based on the evidence before the jury” ’ ”
• “[I]t is appropriate to take into account the changes in billing rates over time.”
• “It is well-established that fees are appropriately excluded from the lodestar when different claims for relief are not interconnected, that is, when the claims rest on different facts and legal theories”
• “It is well- established that fees are appropriately excluded from the lodestar when different claims for relief are not interconnected, that is, when the claims rest on different facts and legal theories”
• common law tort principles of causation apply to § 1983 cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).