The following excerpt is from Sorenson v. Mink, 239 F.3d 1140 (9th Cir. 2001):
Under both statutes, a district court's award of attorney fees must be "reasonable."1"The most useful starting point for determining the amount of a reasonable fee is the number of hours reasonably expended on the litigation multiplied by a reasonable hourly rate." Hensley v. Eckerhart , 461 U.S. 424, 433 (1983).2
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