John Furtado v. Harold Bishop

How courts have described this case

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• circuit court disregarded usual rule that trial court determine attorney’s fees in order to expedite final decision
• reduction of hours spent preparing an appellate brief by one-half to avoid “possible duplication of effort and diseconomies of committee authorship that may occur in a case where there is no demonstration to the contrary.”
• expressing disapproval of King factors and favoring “lodestar” approach
• excluding time where records were ambiguous or inconsistent
• discouraging compensation at professional rates for travel time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).