Kahlil v. Original Old Homestead Restaurant, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that the court in an FLSA action “shall, in addition to any judgment awarded to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, allow a reasonable attorney’s fee to be paid by the defendant, and costs of the action”
• reducing attorneys’ fees and costs sought by 15% for excessive and vague billing, and for time spent on purely clerical tasks
• “It is well established that across-the-board reductions are appropriate when ‘billings records are voluminous’ and numerous billings entries are in dispute.”
• “It is well established that across-the-board reductions are appropriate when billing records are voluminous and numerous billing entries are in dispute.”
• “BWP should not be compensated for the time that Ms. Duguay spent executing purely clerical tasks[.]”
• “Fee awards include reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by attorneys and ordinarily charged to their clients.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).