Levernier Construction, Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that hourly rate for attorneys and paralegals is prevailing market rate or statutory rate of $75 (now $125) per hour plus cost of living or special factor increase, whichever is lower
• holding that a COLA is not available for paralegal awards
• stating that this court is “not free to interpret the EAJA in any manner which is not based on the explicit congressional mandate”
• reviewing EAJA award filed after the parties implemented a settlement agreement and the court entered judgment for the agreed amount
• examining EAJA statute and precedent to conclude that fees incurred for challenging any agencies actions before a contracting officer were not recoverable, because they were not incurred during an adversary adjudication
• preventing upward adjustments when attorneys’ billable rates were below the statutory cap

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).