· 7/21/2010
Sarro v. Astrue
Citations
- 725 F. Supp. 2d 364
- 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73211
- 2010 WL 2869544
How courts have described this case
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- noting that courts in this district have found 20–40 hours to be a reasonable expenditure of time in an average social security disability benefits case, and reducing the hours claimed by the plaintiff’s attorney by almost a third
- nine hours of time spent reading and briefing simple notifications of short filings found unreasonable
- “12 minutes of attorney time for reading a one or two page court filing is not reasonable”
- “The court is not convinced that it is reasonable for an attorney to bill 12 minutes of his time for making a call to this court to check the status of his case or for calling to relay that information to his client.”
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Judges: Nicholas G. Garaufis
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