Sandman v. Sheridan

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “past rates are not necessarily reflective of the ‘current’ market rate”
• finding that Plaintiff failed to meet burden to establish attorney’s rate as the market rate in the community by submitting an affidavit attesting to attorney’s current hourly rate and the payment of that rate in two separate cases
• recognizing 17 hours to prepare a fee petition as reasonable
• rejecting evidence of prevailing rates in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which includes Philadelphia, as inapplicable when determining rates for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
• deducting the hours billed to review of article on the case from the plaintiffs’ requested attorney’s fees award
• finding an hourly rate of $100 for a legal assistant reasonable though the assistant’s qualifications were not known

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).