Legal Opinion
Booker v. Stauffer Seeds, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 22, 1987No. 86-5305PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Steven Bruce Booker on a posttrial motion for discovery sanctions was awarded attorney fees incurred in attempting to obtain proper responses to discovery requests and in proving matters that should have been admitted. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 37. The magistrate, however, in calculating the amount of the award allowed only about twenty-five percent of the hours shown on the attorney time and service schedules submitted by Booker’s counsel. Booker challenges this determination, and we affirm in part and reverse in part.
Booker throughout the trial employed two law firms to conduct…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Lefteri Poulis and Athena Poulis, His Wife v. State Farm Fire and Casualty CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1984
- Roadway Express, Inc. v. PiperSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- William Jordan v. United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982
- Jimmie Wilmington v. J.I. Case Company, Jimmie Wilmington v. J.I. Case CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1986
- American Hangar, Inc. v. Basic Line, Inc.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1985
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3Cited by40 opinions
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- Matthew Lockary v. Paul Kayfetz Victor Amoroso Mary Lowry Diana Lopez Fransworth Frederick B. McClellan Peter Warshall v. Pacific Legal FoundationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
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