Guidry v. Clare

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the court may reduce an attorney’s fee award for inadequate documentation by either (1) identifying and disallowing specific hours that are not adequately documented or by (2) reducing the overall fee award by a fixed percentage
• “Lumping and other types of inadequate documentation are thus a proper basis for reducing a fee award because they prevent an accurate determination of the reasonableness of the time expended in a case.”
• “Lumping and other types of inadequate documentation are thus a proper basis for reducing a fee award because they prevent an accurate determination of the reasonableness of the time expended in a case.”
• “Lumping and other types of inadequate documentation are thus a proper basis for reducing a fee award because they prevent an accurate determination of the reasonableness of the time expended in a case.”
• reducing proposed award by 40% based on inadequate billing records and other considerations
• “Inadequate documentation includes the practice of grouping, or ‘lumping,’ several tasks together under a single entry, without specifying the amount of time spent on each particular task.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).