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adjustments discussed above that apply to 2002-2003 paralegal
time entries. We then multiply the remaining 28.7 hours by the
hourly paralegal rate charged by Jones ($125) to obtain the
paralegal lodestar for this period: $3,587.50.
c. Total
The lodestar with respect to the Jones fee request is
$20,147.90 ($6,315.40 + $5,850 + $4,395 + $3,587.50).
F. Adjustment to Izen’s Fees-on-Fees Lodestar To Reflect
Limited Success
In Dixon VII, we reduced our awards of fees-on-fees to
account for the limited success achieved by the PH appellants and
the Hongsermeiers in pursuing their fee requests. See, e.g.,
Thompson v. Gomez, 45 F.3d 1365, 1367 (9th Cir. 1995) (“the legal
principles for recovering attorney’s fees laid out in Hensley
[citation omitted] apply to requests for fees-on-fees”); see also
Commissioner, INS v. Jean, 496 U.S. at 163 n.10 (dicta). The PH
appellants had unsuccessfully pursued certain discrete issues
relating to their fee request, “thus allowing the limited success
factor to be measured by hours devoted to that effort.” Sisk, 56
La. L. Rev. at 119; see supra Part III.B.2.a. Having lacked that
alternative in the case of the Hongsermeiers, we instead compared
the number of merits hours allowed to merits hours claimed and
applied the resulting “success ratio” to their fees-on-fees
lodestar. See Thompson v. Gomez, supra (applying 87.2-percent
success ratio); Harris v. McCarthy, 790 F.2d 753, 758-759 (9th
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