Opinion ID: 530543
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Heading: The Award of Out-of-Pocket Expenses

Text: 43 The NFL challenges the inclusion of out-of-pocket expenses that were billed directly to the USFL in the award of attorney's fees. However, we have held that attorney's fees awards include those reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by attorneys and ordinarily charged to their clients. Reichman v. Bonsignore, Brignati & Mazzotta P.C., 818 F.2d 278, 283 (2d Cir.1987). The out-of-pocket expenses at issue here were  'incidental and necessary' to the representation of the USFL. Id. (quoting Northcross v. Board of Education, 611 F.2d 624, 639 (6th Cir.1979), cert. denied, 447 U.S. 911, 100 S.Ct. 3000, 64 L.Ed.2d 862 (1980)). Thus, they were properly included in the amount that may be awarded pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d) and 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1920 (1982).