Nichols v. City of Taft

How courts have described this case

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• requiring that a trial court’s “discretion be exercised based on an actual evaluation of the relevant criteria”
• applying Horsford and 1 explaining “a court’s use of reasonable rates in the local community, as an integral part 2 of the initial lodestar equation, is one of the means of providing some objectivity to 3 the process of determining reasonable attorney fees.”
• the lodestar figure is calculated using the reasonable rate for comparable legal services in the local community
• the lodestar figure is calculated using the reasonable rate for comparable legal services in the local community
• “application of a lodestar multiplier is 24 discretionary; that is, it is based on the exercise of the court’s discretion after consideration 25 of the relevant factors in a particular case”

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