Mar. 11, 2026
Judge Cuts $172K in law student billing from $7M fee award
A federal judge reduced a $7 million fee award in immigration litigation, excluding $172,000 in law student billing and applying a 3% haircut after finding the hours duplicative of senior attorneys' work.
Chief Judge Dolly M. Gee excluded more than $172,000 in law student billing from a $7 million fee award in a class action over the government's treatment of children facing deportation, ruling the plaintiffs failed to justify hours she found unnecessarily duplicative of work by senior attorneys over six years.
While Gee's order noted that reasonable student work hours may be generally compensable under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), she found that the requested am...
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