Community Heating & Plumbing Company, Inc. v. H. Lawrence Garrett, Iii, Secretary of the Navy

How courts have described this case

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

• awarding 30% of requested fees where 30% of time was spent on prevailing issue, even though it was only one of six
• denying expert fees because the claimant failed to provide “reasonably specific documentation concerning the actual work done by the consultant.”
• rejecting “the ratio of successful claims to total claims” apportionment method
• position of government “is not shown to be substantially justified merely because the government prevailed before a lower tribunal”
• “The burden is on the government to present a substantial justification for its actions.”
• “The burden is on the government to present a substantial justification for its actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).