Kirk Ludlow v. BNSF Railway Company

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• stating that the employee accused of the improper motive was the plaintiff's supervisor
• finding state-law retaliation where hostile supervisors provided the only source of information to the decision-maker, who in turn rubber-stamped their recommendations
• noting a “long recognized . . . presumption that a reasonable attorney’s fee includes reasonable travel time billed at the same hourly rate as the lawyer’s normal working time, absent a showing the award would be e
• “There is federal case law upholding awards for this type of preparatory work if it is reasonable.”
• “Without question, when the verdict loser fails to file a Rule 50(b) motion renewing its pre-verdict Rule 50(a) JMOL motion, ‘there [is] no basis for review of [the party’s] sufficiency of the evidence challenge in the Court of Appeals.’” (alterations in original

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