· 6/19/1984
Julius C. Henry, Cross-Appellees v. Glenn D. Webermeier and Garden Village, Inc., Cross-Appellants
Citations
- 738 F.2d 188
- 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 21344
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- explaining that if an attorney charges paying clients for travel time, then defendants must pay for such time under a fee-shifting statute
- explaining that if an attorney charges paying clients for travel time, then defendants must pay for such time under a fee-shifting statute
- explaining that there is no “Procrustean bed to which every fee proceeding must be fitted despite its actual dimensions”
- noting that identical language of section 1988 provides for the award of expenses
- “[I]f ... [the district judge] wanted to give the lawyers less he had to give reasons justifying the particular cut that he wanted to impose____”
- reasonable attorney’s fees presumptively include reasonable travel time billed at same hourly rate as normal working time
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Judges: Eschbach, Posner, Marshall
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