Citizens For Community Values, Inc v. Upper Arlington Public Library Board of Trustees

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AFFIDAVIT re 26 Brief in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Attorneys' Fees and Non-Taxable Expenses - Timothy D. Chandler by Plaintiff Citizens For Community Values, Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A) (Chandler, Timothy)

Citizens For Community Values, Inc v. Upper Arlington Public Library Board of Trustees

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY VALUES, INC., : : Plaintiff, : : vs. : : UPPER ARLINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY : BOARD OF TRUSTEES, : : Defendant. :

Case No. 2:08-cv-00223-GCS-NMK Judge George C. Smith Magistrate Judge Norah McCann King

DECLARATION OF TIMOTHY D. CHANDLER IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS FEES AND NON-TAXABLE COSTS

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I, Timothy D. Chandler, state as follows: 1. 2. The matters declared herein are based upon my own personal knowledge. I am an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a non-profit public interest law

firm. I am counsel for Plaintiff in the above-captioned matter. 3. This declaration is filed to demonstrate the reasonableness of the total number of

hours I incurred on behalf of Plaintiff in this matter. 4. My participation in this case included researching and drafting pleadings,

motions, memoranda, discovery-related documents and correspondence, as well as working on Plaintiff's fee application. 5. As reflected on the attached timesheet, I personally spent a total of 148.2 hours in

furtherance of the excellent results obtained in this litigation on behalf of our client. My timesheet is based on contemporaneous time records that I kept as I worked on each task. However, after reviewing my timesheet and coordinating with my co-counsel as part of my

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firm's regular practice of exercising billing discretion (to attempt to ensure that we eliminate administrative tasks, excessive research or drafting, or duplicative work from our fee requests), I have omitted from my timesheet 22.1 hours worth of work performed, and reduced the total number of hours for which my firm seeks compensation to 126.1 hours. These omissions are reflected in the "Adjusted Hours" column and corresponding notes included in my itemized time statement, attached hereto as Exhibit A. 6. When multiplied by my hourly rate of $200.00, the total amount of attorney fees

for which I personally seek recovery is $25,220.00. 7. In addition to attorney fees, our firm has incurred out-of-pocket litigation

expenses in the amount of $53.83. These expenses were incurred for shipping, postage, and a conference call to conduct a pretrial conference. A detailed itemization of the expenses is set forth in the Schedule of Non-Taxable Expenses, attached hereto as Exhibit B. I declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed this 26th day of September, 2008. /s/ Timothy D. Chandler____ Timothy D. Chandler CA Bar No. 234325 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND 101 Parkshore Drive, Suite 100 Folsom, California 95630 Telephone: [phone] Email: [e-mail]

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on September 26, 2008, I electronically submitted the foregoing document with the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF system for filing and transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrants: Kevin H. Theriot [e-mail], [e-mail] David R. Langdon [e-mail] Timothy D. Chandler [e-mail], [e-mail] Heather Gebelin Hacker [e-mail] Counsel for Plaintiff

Angelique Paul Newcomb [e-mail] Susan Porter [e-mail] Counsel for Defendant

/s/ Timothy D. Chandler Timothy D. Chandler CA Bar No. 234325 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND 101 Parkshore Drive, Suite 100 Folsom, California 95630 Telephone: [phone] Email: [e-mail]

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