William McNabola v. Chicago Transit Authority

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• holding that a per diem physician could be ade- quately compared to per diem attorneys in an organization with a limited number of per diem physicians
• explaining that the market rate can be determined by the “rate that lawyers of similar ability and experience in the community normally charge their paying clients for the type of work in question”
• noting that a Rule 59(e) motion filed after an amended judgment “must bear some relationship to the district court’s alteration of the first judgment— that is, the motion must challenge the altered and not the original judgment”
• defining a “reasonable hourly rate” as “the rate that lawyers of a similar abil- ity and experience in the community normally charge to their paying clients”
• the party seeking attorney fees bears the burden of proving the reasonableness of the number of hours worked
• unit of local government responsible for employee’s actions if taken pursuant to the custom of the unit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).