Carnation Co. v. Hill

How courts have described this case

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• holding that incorporated document must be physically appended to order
• noting that courts award “those reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by attorneys and ordinarily charged to their clients” (quoting U.S. Football League v. Nat’l Football League, 887 F.2d 408, 416 (2d Cir. 1989))
• expenses such as “duplicating, postage, telephone, computerized legal research and other office expenses” are ordinarily recoverable and not absorbed into an attorney fee as overhead
• “[A]ttorney’s fees awards include those reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by attorneys and ordinarily charged to their clients.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “When a plaintiff has ... prevailed on fewer than all of his claims, the most important ques tion in determining a reasonable fee is whether the failed claim was intertwined with the claims on which he succeeded.”
• “No fees should be awarded for time spent pursuing a failed claim if it was unrelated to the plaintiff’s successful claims in the sense that it was based on different facts and legal theories.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).