Yough v. New Jersey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[a] fee petition is required to be specific enough to allow the district court ‘to determine if the hours claimed are unreasonable for the work performed.’ ”
• explaining that objections must be sufficiently specific to “serve the ... function of putting the applicant on notice that it must defend its fee position”
• explaining that an attorney fee award cannot be decreased based on factors not raised by the adverse party
• rejecting attorney affidavits submitted to support fee application as insufficient to establish relevant market’s treatment of contingency cases
• excluding the number of hours spent litigating claims on which the party did not succeed
• affirming district court conclusion that the hours devoted to the motion to dismiss were sufficiently separate among the defendants to warrant deduction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).