Miele, Jr. v. New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the contention that the court “must consider only the hourly rate data submitted into evidence”
• judge may determine reasonable fees based on his or her knowledge of prevailing community rates
• “[WJe do not share the view ... that a district judge may not rely in part on the judge’s own knowledge of private firm hourly rates in the community.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).