Catherine M. Loughner v. The University Of Pittsburgh

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a district court “should reduce the hours claimed by the number of hours . . . for which the fee petition inadequately documents the hours claimed”
• noting that trial judge had found that employment discrimination cases are “much more complex” than wage and overtime case in Loughner
• noting that FLSA wage and overtime cases are relatively “simple” and “uncomplicated,” and therefore do not warrant a particularly high attorney fees award
• explaining that satisfactory evidence of the prevailing market rate requires more than the attorney’s own affidavits
• noting that a fee award should be reduced where “the fee petition inadequately documents the hours claimed”
• noting that a “district court cannot decrease a fee award based on factors not raised at all by the adverse party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).