Marc Cohodes v. United States Department of Justice
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division MARC COHODES, Case No. 20-cv-04015-LB
Plaintiff, ORDER FOR ATTORNEY’S FEES FOR
THE FEES MOTION
v.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al., 15 Defendants.
17 In this FOIA case, the court awarded the plaintiff $180,808.50 for attorney’s fees expended in 18 the litigation. The plaintiff also sought $73,948.95 in fees for the fees motion. The court allowed 19 the government to file a supplemental opposition, and the plaintiff to reply to it, because the 20 plaintiff estimated the fees in the initial fees motion and documented them only in the reply.1 The 21 court now awards $73,948.95 because the hourly rates and hours spent are reasonable. 22 Attorneys may recover attorney’s fees for time reasonably expended on a motion for fees and 23 costs. Rosenfeld v. U.S. DOJ, 904 F. Supp. 2d 988, 1008 (N.D. Cal. 2012) (citing Brown v. 24 Sullivan, 916 F.2d 492, 497 (9th Cir. 1990)). The court evaluates the fees under the lodestar 25