SHORT

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

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• Norman v. The Hous. Auth. OF the City OF Montgomery, 836 F.2d 1292 (11th Cir. 1988)
  …thout holding an evidentiary hearing. This court followed that decision in Marable v. Walker, 704 F. 2d 1219 (11th Cir.1983) and in other cases. King v. McCord I relied on In Re: First [*1304] Colonial Corp., 544 F. 2d 1291 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 904, 97 S.Ct. 1696, 52 L.Ed.2d 388 (1977), in which an intervenor sought attorney’s fees in a bankruptcy case. First Colonial relied on Ross v. Bernhard, 396 U.S. 531, 541 n. 15, 90 S.Ct. 733, 740 n. 15, 24 L.Ed.2d 729 (1970), which dealt generally with…
• United States v. Mechanik, 475 U.S. 66 (U.S. 1986)
  …ven the opportunity to make an independent examination of the evidence and render its probable cause and charging determinations free of undue prosecutorial influence. See, e. g., United States v. Echols, 542 F. 2d 948, 951 (CA5 1976), cert. denied, 431 U. S. 904 (1977); United States v. Lili, 511 F. Supp. 50, 55-57 (SD W. Va. 1980); 1 C. Wright, Federal Practice & Procedure §105, p. 237, and n. 1 (2d ed. 1982). For example, if the Government, in violation of Rule 6(d), were to have all witnesses remain in…
• Loranger v. Merrett Stierheim, 10 F.3d 776 (11th Cir. 1994)
  …hat problematic. It appears to have been first articulated in Fitzpatrick v. IRS, 665 F. 2d 327, 332-33 (11th Cir.1982). The Fitzpatrick court, in turn, relied on In re First Colonial Corp. of Am., 544 F. 2d 1291, 1298-99 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 904, 97 S.Ct. 1696, 52 L.Ed.2d 388 (1977). In re First Colonial, however, does not mandate an hour-by-hour explanation of fee reductions. To the contrary, the In re First Colonial court held that a judge "must briefly explain the findings and reasons…