The following excerpt is from Nguyen v. Kijakazi, 18-cv-00590-H-KSC (S.D. Cal. 2021):
[C]ourts should apply what is now called the lodestar' method to determine what constitutes a reasonable attorney's fee under 42 U.S.C. 1988, the fee shifting statute applicable in civil rights cases. Costa v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. Admin., 690 F.3d 1132, 1135 (9th Cir. 2012). To calculate the lodestar amount, the court multiplies the number of hours reasonably expended on the litigation . . . by a reasonable hourly rate.' Id. (quoting Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 433 (1983)).
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