United States v. Certain Parcels of Land in Philadelphia

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• adhering to the USAO Laffey Matrix in a “not particularly complex” class action and acknowledging the growing approval for the USAO Laffey Matrix
• reducing initial lodestar by ten percent to account for numerous vague time entries
• reducing initial lodestar by ten percent to account for numerous vague time entries
• reducing the plaintiff’s fee request (1) to preclude recovery from some of the work performed for the plaintiffs, (2) to reflect the plaintiff’s limited status as a prevailing party, and (3) to take into account the attorneys’ “vague time descriptions”
• applying the USAO Matrix because “plaintiffs’ attorneys in this case have 6 not justified the use of the enhanced Laffey matrix by showing the nature and complexity of the work; they simply argue that the enhanced matrix is more accurate”
• rev’d on other grounds by DL v. District of Columbia, 713 F.3d 120, 129 (D.C. Cir. 2013

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).