Illinois Central Railroad v. Roberts

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “any insufficient documentation has been sufficiently accounted for by plaintiffs’ counsel’s voluntary reduction of the final lodestar figure by 5%”
• noting that “preparing shipping labels” is a non- compensable clerical task
• finding 5 percent voluntary reduction adequate to counteract inadequately documented billing
• “The lodestar approach has emerged as the prevailing method of fee calculation in fee-shifting cases for good reason.”
• awarding $387,710.48 in fees in FLSA case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).