Green v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund

How courts have described this case

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• affirming a fee award on an untimely Rule 54(d) motion because “Rule 54’s purpose was fulfilled” given the “ample notice” that the plaintiff “would be seeking fees”
• awarding Title VII plaintiff attorneys' fees for time spent on depositions in distinct workers' compensation suit because \[t]he workers' compensation case made available to [the plaintiff]'s counsel information and discovery which was necessary to effectively litigate the Title VII claim\
• “[T]he percentage reduction is nothing more than an abbreviated way of performing the task ultimately performed by the [line-by-line analysis].”
• abrogated on other grounds by Burlington N. & Santa Fe Ry. v. White, 548 U.S. 53, 66 (2006)
• “To the extent that any Johnson factors are subsumed in the lodestar, they should not be reconsidered when determining whether an adjustment to the lodestar is required.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).