Baddock v. American Benefit Life Insurance

How later courts describe this case

• deciding Title III based habeas claims without considering the Fourth Amendment or the constraints of Stone
• applying the Johnson factors to the analysis of fee awards in bankruptcy cases
• "the bankruptcy judge ... should award an amount which is 'at the lower end of the spectrum of reasonableness' "
• attorney seeking compensation should file statement reciting hours worked and describing how each of those hours was spent
• where petition for an award of fees was not sufficiently detailed, bankruptcy court had a duty to conduct evidentiary hearing and assess the value of the services provided
• The decisions of the Fifth Circuit before September 30, 1981, are binding precedent on the Courts of the Eleventh Circuit. Bonner v. City of Prichard, 661 F.2d 1206, 1207 (11th Cir.1981)
• involving a § 1983 claim for damages to a corporation
• Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C. §§ 205, 641, 643, 644