The Crescent Publishing Group, Inc. v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Doing Business as Playboy Magazine

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where the party opposing the fee application indicates the existence of genuine disputes, the district court must permit such party to submit relevant evidence, and if appropriate, hold a hearing on the issue
• explaining that an attorney-client agreement may 7 provide compelling evidence of the “prevailing market rate”
• “The actual billing arrangement certainly provides a strong indication of what private parties believe is the ‘reasonable’ fee to be awarded.”
• “[T]he actual billing arrangement is a significant, though not necessarily controlling, factor in determining what fee is ‘reasonable.’”
• “[F]or prevailing parties with private counsel, the actual billing arrangement is a significant, though not necessarily controlling, factor in determining what fee is ‘reasonable.’”
• “{T]he actual billing arrangement is a significant, though not necessarily controlling, factor in determining what fee is ‘reasonable.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).