Wise v. Kelly

How courts have described this case

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

• awarding $425 for lead counsel in an action “considerably more difficult and complex than the average civil rights case”
• collecting cases awarding $230-$430 per hour for civil rights litigators where \[t]he legal community at issue ... covers small to mid-size firms in civil rights\
• finding 81.4 hours to prepare a 42-page Complaint in a § 1983 class action was not excessive
• stating courts may delete elements of an award because of insufficient documentation or vague billing
• reducing fee award by 25% because certain entries were too vague to enable the court to assess their reasonableness
• taking judicial notice of Emery Celli’s “high reputation” and “finding it to be one of the most competent, successful, and reputable civil rights firms practicing in this Court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).