Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• affirming award of only 20% of settlement where counsel devoted 5,100 attorney hours to litigation over four years
• finding two-and-a-half years of litigation and 5100 attorney hours of discovery as not unusually time consuming where case did not present problems requiring exceptional skills
• affirming denial of net recovery of 33.33% of settlement and fixing fee at 20% in excess recovery in unexceptional case
• finding two-and-a-half years of litigation and 5100 attorney hours of discovery as not unusually time consuming where case did not present problems requiring exceptional skills
• affirming magistrate judge’s decision to deny net recovery of 33.33% of settlement and fix fee at 20% in excess recovery
• “Generally, the right of a party or an attorney to recover attorney’s fees from another party in a diversity action is a matter of substantive state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).