The following excerpt is from Mendez v. County of San Bernardino, 540 F.3d 1109 (9th Cir. 2008):
which she did not prevail, if they "involve a common core of facts or are based on related legal theories." Id. (internal quotation marks omitted). Nonetheless, the district court dispensed with "the practice courts are generally required to follow when calculating attorney's fees in civil rights cases i.e., computing a lodestar figure and then, if necessary, making adjustments to that figure based upon reasonableness factors," instead denying all costs and fees as excessive. Morales v. City of San Rafael, 96 F.3d 359, 362 (9th Cir.1996).
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