Student Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey, Inc. And Friends of the Earth, in 86-5927 v. At & T Bell Laboratories, in 86-5895

How courts have described this case

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

• calculating lodestar for a for-profit public interest law firm based on a “community market rate” instead of either the actual billing rate of the firm or the market rate for public interest law firms
• “Because the four dissenters would allow contingency multipliers in all cases in which Justice O’Connor would allow them, her position commands a majority of the Court.”
• appellate court found plaintiffs failed to make any showing regarding costs incurred and upheld district court’s denial of delay damages
• “[W]here fee applicants do not fully succeed in recovering their fees, the fee award must be reduced to reflect incomplete success on the fee award.”
• “the district court must exercise its discretion in reducing the fee downward”
• “Delay compensation does not depend on the type of case or the quality of representation but rather on economic factors encompassing the cost to the plaintiffs law firm of waiting for its fee”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).