Opinion ID: 156986
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Westlaw Expenses

Text: 67 The appellants claimed $8,500.49 in expenses for electronic research, and the district court awarded one-half, or $4,250.25. The district court reduced the award for two reasons: (1) it was not able to separate research related to the appellants' prevailing claims from research on claims which they lost; and (2) it determined that Westlaw was not the most cost effective research method. We need rely only upon the first stated ground in affirming the trial court. The district court is correct that the appellants' Westlaw billings are not identified by the issues presented at trial. See Aplts' App. vol. VI, at 2071. Trial courts are justified in denying compensation where the affidavits and time records in the fee submissions fail to differentiate adequately between the costs attributable to billable and non-billable items. Mares, 801 F.2d at 1209. Therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied a fraction of the undifferentiated Westlaw charges, and we affirm this portion of the district court's order.