465 U.S. 886 (1984) Cited 8,863 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that fee shifting is “to be calculated according to the prevailing market rates in the relevant community, regardless of whether plaintiff is represented by private or nonprofit counsel”
468 U.S. 85 (1984) Cited 666 times 32 Legal Analyses
Holding that NCAA restrictions on televising college football games are subject to Rule of Reason analysis for the “critical” reason that “horizontal restraints on competition are essential if the product is to be available at all”
Determining that lodestar calculation may be adjusted upward or downward only on the basis of Johnson factors not already subsumed in lodestar determination
Holding that expenses that are not allowable as costs under 28 U.S.C. § 1920 may be awarded under ERISA as a component of reasonable attorneys' fees where it is "the prevailing practice in a given community" for lawyers to bill those costs separately from their hourly rates
Holding “that the term ‘costs on appeal’ in Rule 7 includes all expenses defined as ‘costs' by an applicable fee-shifting statute, including attorney's fees”