Walker v. Dill's Administrator

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that some internal conference time “is surely compensable as appropriate strategic discussions”
• authorizing an hourly rate of $400 for attorneys with forty-six and thirty-eight years of experience in a constitutional law case from the Norfolk Division of the Eastern District of Virginia
• authorizing an hourly rate of $325 for an attorney with eighteen years of experience
• reducing hourly rate for traveling from $450.00 to $200.00, which “[struck] an appropriate balance between the task billed, driving a car (which requires no legal skills of any kind), and counsel’s opportunity costs of such travel-time”
• “Thefee applicant bears the burden of proving the reasonableness of the hours expended and the requested hourly rates.”
• some time for appropriate strategic discussions is compensable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).