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• holding that where a defendant does not oppose plaintiff's prima showing with respect to the appropriate rate, the plaintiff must be awarded the requested rate
• holding that a district court must “go line, by line, by line through the billing records supporting the fee request” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that, absent evidence contesting the hourly rate, “plaintiff must be awarded attorneys’ fees at [the] requested rate”
• noting that parties seeking attorneys’ fees “must include fairly definite information as to hours devoted to various general activities, ¢.g., partial discovery, settlement negotiations, and the hours spent by various classes of attorneys”
• “noting that the burden of establishing a prima facie case includes evidence of a reasonable market rate and references to billing rates charged by attorneys of equivalent skill and experience with cases of similar complexity”
• noting “precise overlap in both time and task” caused conclusion that time billed was duplicative and therefore “not reasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).