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(original expense report). Therein, petitioners claimed costs of
$60 for the Court filing fee, $66.29 for postage, delivery, and
office supplies, $200 for lost wages, and $783 for the purported
value of petitioners’ research time.3
Also in April of 2004, at a cost of $13.77, petitioners
delivered to respondent via Federal Express additional documents
relating to their motion for litigation costs.
On May 4, 2004, a hearing on petitioners’ motion for
litigation costs was held in Boise, Idaho. To attend the
hearing, petitioner drove his car the 30-mile round trip from
petitioners’ home in Meridian to the courthouse in Boise,4 and
petitioner incurred $3 to park his car while attending the Court
hearing. Petitioner’s wife did not accompany petitioner to the
courthouse and apparently went to work.
On June 8, 2004, petitioners mailed to the Court by
certified mail a revised five-page expense report which claimed
$10.50 relating to the automobile mileage costs to travel to the
3 Petitioners calculated the $200 in lost wages in
anticipation that both petitioners would attend the scheduled
Court hearing on May 4, 2004, and that each petitioner would lose
$100 in wages to do so. The $783 for petitioners’ research time
was calculated at $5.25 per hour for 141 hours. Included in the
research time are time estimates for making phone calls and
emails, which time also apparently was calculated at the same
$5.25 hourly rate.
4 Under Fed. R. Evid. 201, the Court takes judicial notice
of the location of Meridian, Idaho, approximately 15 miles from
Boise.
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