Hunsaker's Admrx. v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a case was not complex since the resolution required “straightforward application” of breach of contract principles and the case was disposed with “a relatively simple summary judgment Order.”
• applying lodestar methodology to determine reasonableness of attorneys’ fees awarded pursuant to contract
• “Courts faced with excessively vague or inadequate descriptions of tasks in fee claims have reduced fee claims by percentages ranging from 20% to 90%.”
• the use of “except as set forth herein” referred the court to a remedy elsewhere in the contract and that this language was intentional and enforceable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).