Camacho v. Bridgeport Financial, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court abused its discretion by not identifying the relevant community or explaining the prevailing hourly rate
• concluding that the district court erred by failing to explain “what was the prevailing hourly rate in that community”
• ruling that a district court erred by failing to identify the prevailing hourly rate in the relevant community for similar services by lawyers of reasonably comparable skill, experience, and reputation
• holding that fees-on-fees must be calculated 13 using the lodestar method
• noting that the prevailing market rate may be demonstrated by affidavits discussing the market rates or by examining “rate determinations in other cases”
• noting that a “reasonable” fee award also includes fees expended “in the pursuit of costs and damages under [§ 303(i) ]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).