Geraldine Spellan v. Board Of Education For District 111

How courts have described this case

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• “The party submitting the [fee] petition has, of course, the burden of justifying the fees requested in the petition.”
• “We have no doubt that the district court has an independent obligation to scrutinize the legitimacy of [a fee petition].”
• “We have no doubt that the district court has an independent obligation to scrutinize the legitimacy of [a fee petition].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).