City of Bridgeport v. Finizie

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to reduce the award of attorneys’ fees where plaintiffs succeeded on the merits of their claims but the court had reduced the amount of plaintiffs recovery
• declining to impose reduction on hours based on quarter-hour billing and identifying trend among courts not to do so unless coupled with vague or excessive fee requests
• explaining the importance of contemporaneous records to determining reasonable compensation in IDEA cases
• “A court has the discretion to reduce the award for time spent by attorneys engaging in less skilled work, like filing and other administrative tasks.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• applying 75% reduction where paralegal billed for non-compensable clerical work
• awarding fees for work conducted in SRO proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).