Opinion ID: 2972041
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Text: For all the foregoing reasons, we hereby AFFIRM the judgment of the district court. 4 Our holding acknowledges the wide discretion a district court enjoys in determining the amount of “reasonable” attorneys fees to award a successful Title VII litigant. We hold today that the district court did not abuse its discretion in awarding a multiplier of 1.75 to Barnes’s attorneys in this case. However, district courts should recognize that this figure, (1.75), is near the upper end of what we consider “reasonable.” Therefore, district courts should not view the decision to uphold the multiplier in this case as an explicit or implicit approval of this large or larger multipliers across the board, or assume that a multiplier, like the one used in this case, could never constitute an abuse of discretion.