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· 8/6/2007

Dorothy Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority and Terry Peterson v. Daniel E. Levin and the Habitat Company Llc, Receivers-Appellees

Citations

  • 491 F.3d 649

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “650+ conferencing hours” was not unreasonable and that “Defendants’ conclusory ‘too many hours’ allegations do not establish error”
  • holding that the district court “did not abuse its discretion in concluding that [489 hours] spent on intra-team communications [over the course of two years] was compensable”
  • “Use of one or more lawyer is a common practice, primarily because it often results in a more efficient distribution of work.”
  • use of more than one lawyer “often results in a more efficient distribution of work”
  • “Use of one or more lawyer is a common practice, primarily because it often results in a more efficient distribution of work.”
  • “market rate is the rate that lawyers of similar ability and experience in the community normally charge their paying clients for the type of work in question”

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Judges: Cudahy, Williams, Wood

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