CENTEX-ROONEY CONST. CO. v. Martin County

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• holding that the trial court erred in taxing overhead “expenses for supplies, rental equipment, shipping, photocopying, and faxing”
• holding that although a fee applicant has the burden of establishing its entitlement to an attorney’s fee award, the opponent of the fee has the burden of pointing out with specificity what hours should be deducted
• reversing award of costs for daily trial transcripts and stating that “[wjhile most attorneys would agree that preparation for trial would be enhanced by daily transcription of the previous witnesses, it is not a cost that should be routinely taxed against an opponent”
• “[M]eals (other than business meals), equipment, postage and freight, equipment maintenance, printing, communication charges, temporary help, documents processing, graphics and similar administrative expenses were improperly taxed as costs.”
• cost of daily transcripts disallowed because there was no finding of necessity
• “there was no evidence that the daily or expedited [trial] transcripts were used at trial, nor did the court make any finding at all regarding the necessity of the expedited transcripts. We therefore reverse this award”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).