Holper
Facebook, Inc. v. Holper
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
FACEBOOK, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, No. C 20-06023 WHA
v.
NIKOLAY HOLPER, ORDER ADOPTING IN PART
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Defendant.
RE DEFAULT JUDGMENT
15 The undersigned has reviewed the report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero and agrees that plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment should be GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART, for the reasons stated in the report, (Rep. & Rec., Dkt. No. 47). No objection was received in response to the report. This order adopts the report and recommendation, except that attorney’s fees will be reduced from the recommended amount of $107,221.20 to $89,351.00. Plaintiffs requested $178,702.00 in attorney’s fees for work performed to obtain an entry of default judgment (Mortimer Decl. ¶ 4). Judge Spero recommended a forty-percent reduction in attorney’s fees “[i]n light of Facebook’s attorneys’ failure to address key issues (like website translations) in their original motion,…