Francis Muscare v. Robert J. Quinn, Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department

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• district court has discretion to deny attorney’s fees for time spent in establishing right to fees in underlying action
• district judge had discretion to deny the plaintiffs second fee request for preparing fees in its entirety: “If the fee claims are exorbitant or the time devoted to presenting them is unnecessarily high, the judge may refuse further compensation .... ”

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