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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DIAGNOSTIC

LABORATORIES, INC, et al,

Plaintiffs,

v

NEUTRONICS ENTERPRISES, INC, 

et al,

Defendants. /

No C 03-1563 VRW

ORDER

On April 13, 2006, the parties appeared on defendants’

motions to set aside default and plaintiffs’ motion for entry of

default judgment. The court granted defendants’ motions on the

condition, among others, that defendant (and former counsel for

defendants) Walter Wiggins pay attorney fees and costs incurred by

plaintiffs in moving for entry of default judgment and opposing

defendants’ motions to set aside entry of default. See Doc #171.

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Case 3:03-cv-01563-VRW Document 184 Filed 06/09/06 Page 1 of 2
United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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Accordingly, plaintiffs filed a request for attorney fees

in the amount of $12,573.68, Doc #172, which represents $11,050 in

fees and $213.68 in costs expended by plaintiffs’ current counsel,

Doc #173 (Kleven Decl), plus $1,310 in fees for the work of

plaintiffs’ former counsel, Doc #174 (Spencer-Smith Decl). 

Wiggins objects to plaintiffs’ fee request on two

grounds. Doc #178. First, Wiggins contends that the fees would

have never been incurred had plaintiffs acceded to his request that

plaintiffs extend Wiggins and his co-defendants the “courtesy” of

agreeing to set aside the defaults. Id at 4. This argument merits

zero consideration, for the court made clear that Wiggins was

responsible for compensating plaintiffs for the default-related

motions practice. Nothing presented by Wiggins justifies

reconsideration of that ruling. 

Next, Wiggins argues that current plaintiffs’ counsel’s

fees were billed at a rate of $250/hour rather than $200/hour, the

rate that plaintiffs have actually been paying for counsel’s work. 

In their reply, plaintiffs conceded this mistake and reduced their

request by $2,210 ($50/hour X 44.2 hours). Doc #183.

Walter Wiggins is hereby ORDERED to pay plaintiffs

forthwith fees and costs in the amount of $10,363.68.

 

SO ORDERED.

 

VAUGHN R WALKER

United States District Chief Judge

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