requested for counsels’ work is 2,294.21. (Docs. 308, 309, 312.) In Plaintiffs’ Responsive Memorandum, Doc. 311 at n. 1, counsel withdraws her request for 10 hours of file review and briefing, bringing the total to 2,284.21. In addition, the Court notes that the time spent by Matt Meyer was included in the total number of attorney hours, but the Court finds that Plaintiffs should be compensated at a rate of $50 per hour for Mr. Meyer’s work in light of his status as a law school graduate and the $75 per hour rate applicable to all attorneys in this case. Turning to Plaintiffs’ request for expenses, the Court will not allow recovery of Westlaw expenses, as that is to be included in an attorney’s hourly rate. See Leftwich v. Harris-Stowe State College, 702 F.2d 686, 695 (8th Cir.1983) (<HOLDING>); Standley v. Chilhowee R-IV Sch. Dist., 5 F.3d
holding that computeraided research like any other form of legal research is a component of attorneys fees and cannot be independently taxed as an item of cost in addition to the attorneys fee award holding that attorneys fees would include expenses for computerized legal research and thus not allowing computerized legal research as a separate taxable cost holding that based on leftwich the law of this circuit is that computerbased legal research must be factored into the attorneys hourly rate hence the cost of the computer time may not be added to the fee award holding that the costs of computerized research should be characterized not as taxable costs but as attorneys fees holding that the costs of computerized research was a component of attorneys fees that cannot be independently taxed as an item of cost