People Who Care v. Rockford Board Of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant failed to establish why a lower rate was essential where it did not submit affidavits or other specific evidence in support of its position
• “The attorney’s actual billing rate for comparable work is ‘presumptively appropriate’ to use as the market rate.”
• “The attorney’s actual billing rate for comparable work is presumptively appropriate to use as the market rate.”
• “The attorney’s actual billing rate for comparable work is “presumptively appropriate” to use as the market rate.”
• The success or failure of a plaintiff’s actions is not 7 controlling; rather, the controlling consideration is whether those actions were reasonable
• the court’s focus should be on the reasonableness of the attorney’s actions rather than the success or failure of the actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).