Kathy Radtke v. Maria Caschetta

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.

BROWN, Circuit Judge:

After eight years of litigation, appellants Kathy Radtke and Carmen Cunningham received less than $6,000 in damages for unpaid overtime wages. They spent the next two years seeking $250,000 in attorney’s fees; the district court ultimately awarded them just over $56,000. But this decade-long litigation will not end here. Appellants now challenge the fee award as too low while the employers challenge it as too high, each alleging a multitude of errors. We need discuss only two of these claims, however, as we conclude the…