Denise Martinec v. Party Line Cruise Company

This appeal arises out of an attorneys’ fee award ordered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) case. After conducting a hearing on the appellants’ motion for attorneys’ fees and costs, the district court found that appellants’ counsels’ billing rates were reasonable, but that the number of hours spent on the litigation was unreasonable. In making this finding, the district court considered the numerous requests by appellants for extensions of time to respond to discovery, the appellants’ filing of unnecessary/frivolous…