Louise Cole and Densey Cole v. Andrew Wodziak

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that $1 is an example of a paltry award that does not merit attorneys fees
• explaining that a low recovery does not necessarily mean that the lawyer unreasonably valued the ease
• determining that plaintiffs in a race discrimination suit were prevailing parties entitled to reasonable attorney's fees
• noting that district court may apply Farrar “[w]hen recovery is low enough in relation to the demand”; recovery of $4,500 was 6% of amount sought
• approving an 85% reduction in requested fees because “recovering less than 10% of the demand is a good reason to curtail the fee award substantially”
• approving trial court’s abandonment of lodestar in favor of percentage of recovery because “recovering less than 10% of [claimed damages] is a good reason to curtail the fee award substantially”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).