Cruz Ex Rel. Cruz v. Alhambra School Dist.

ORDER RE: ATTORNEY FEES AND COSTS

AUDREY B. COLLINS, Chief Judge.

Contrary to the Supreme Court’s hope that attorneys’ fees motions not become a “second major litigation,” this matter presents precisely such a situation. The parties have filed thousands of pages of papers in battling over the appropriate fees to be awarded to Plaintiffs after they successfully concluded this Title IX matter through settlement. The fighting has ranged from the reasonableness of Plaintiffs’ overall claimed hours down to the ability to recover $1.34 for a bottle of water purchased during travel to a status…