Court Opinion

ID: 9711486
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:33:00.428615+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:01:52.660597
License: Public Domain

GARRARD, Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur with the majority except for its disallowance of deposition costs. Where, as here, it is determined that attorney’s fees are properly allowable, they include the time spent in taking depositions. The limitation is what was reasonable. The cost of the reporter’s time in taking the deposition and in its transcription, if necessary, is merely an incident to the attorney’s representation. As such, and always subject to the reasonableness requirement, the cost of discovery should be recoverable as a part of the attorney fee allowance as should other reasonable and necessary out-of-pocket expenditures.
Since it appears that the reasonableness of those expenditures is not really challenged, they were allowable and the judgment should stand.
I would affirm.