Efrain MacEira v. Luis Enrique Pagan, Local 901, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America

How courts have described this case

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• finding that there were no attorneys available in Puerto Rico with sufficient experience to handle a case involving “complex Landrum-Griffin Act issues” and “Teamster dissidents”
• noting that, under the lodestar approach, “[t]he final figure combines reasonably objective market factors with the court’s own perception of the litigation”
• requiring use of the local rate “for example, in an ordinary case requiring no specialized abilities not amply reflected among local lawyers”
• explaining, in context of Landrum-Griffin Act, that recovery for fees of out-of-town attorneys who charge higher rates may be reasonable if those attorneys have special expertise
• allowing compensation for travel time at half the hourly rate of the prevailing attorney
• \The reasonable hourly rate is usually stated to be 'that prevailing in the community for similar work.' \ (quoting Copeland v. Marshall, 641 F.2d 880, 892 (D.C. Cir. 1980) (en banc))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).