Role Models Amer Inc v. White, Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a lawyer should not “lump together multiple tasks” when billing because this practice “mak[es] it impossible to evaluate their reasonableness”
• deducting hours where “one attorney’s records indicate that he or she spent time meeting with another attorney, while the second attorney’s records report no such meeting”
• court must “determine with a high degree of certainty that such hours were actually and reasonably expended”
• “Duplication of effort is another basis on which the hours seem excessive.” (alteration and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Duplication of effort is another basis on which the hours seem excessive.” (alteration and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[C]ourts properly have required prevailing attorneys to justify the reasonableness of the requested rate or rates.” (quoting Blum v. Stenson, 465 U.S. 886, 896 n.11 (1984)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).