Kathleen Marez v. Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that there is no precise rule or formula for making fee determinations in cases with only partial success and a district court may simply reduce the award to account for the plaintiffs limited success
• applying the cat’s paw theory in a FMLA case and affirming a liquidated damages award on the basis of cat’s paw liability
• applying the cat’s paw theory in a FMLA case and affirming a liquidated damages award on the basis of cat’s paw liability
• applying the cat’s paw theory in a FMLA case and affirming a liquidated damages award on the basis of cat’s paw liability
• affirming district court’s conclusion that 50% fee reduction was appropriate, but 70% reduction would be excessive
• upholding the district court’s reduction of requested of attorney’s fees, finding the attorney had limited success partly due to the failure to obtain the requested punitive damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).