Gagnier v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “The starting point in determining a reasonable hourly rate is the attorneys’ usual billing rate, but this is not dis-positive.”
• “A simple, mechanistic reduction based solely on the ratio of successful to unsuccessful issues is ... precluded by Hensley_ [T]he district court ... is required to do a more searching analysis than it did here before it can apply a negative multiplier.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).