Opinion ID: 173386
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Benice's Equitable Receipt of Fees

Text: The district court did not entirely divest Benice of his fees in this case. Instead, the court permitted Benice to retain, in equity, his reasonable fees for work done before Appellants' assets were frozen. In a three-sentence paragraph at the close of their brief, Appellants assert that the district court erred when calculating the fees granted to Benice. The court based its calculation on a $300 hourly rate, rather than the $450 hourly rate that Benice had initially requested. Without elaborating, Appellants claim that the district court's refusal to accept the $450 hourly rate was unsupported. (Appellant's Br. at 50.) Appellants' unsupported assertion does not satisfy us that the district court erred. See Camacho v. Bridgeport Financial, Inc., 523 F.3d 973, 980 (9th Cir.2008) (fee applicant bears the burden of producing evidence to support requested rates). On this record, we hold the court did not abuse its discretion in granting Benice a limited fee recovery of $136,700.