Douglas v. New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by reducing fees-on-fees as unreasonable
• holding that “minutely detailed records” are not required to support a fee petition
• noting that complexity or novelty of a case will be reflected either in the number of hours billed or, if counsel is experienced, in the hourly rate charged for that matter and therefore it is useful in adjusting the lodestar amount
• noting plaintiffs who prevail under § 1983 “[are] entitled to compensation for reasonable litigation expenses under § 1988”
• reducing deposition time where two counsel were present and one was responsible for depositions, making time duplicative
• finding no abuse of discretion in substantial reductions in fee requests based on lack of detailed affidavits supporting request and duplicativeness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).