reasonableness

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Courts and bar authorities should also revisit fee reasonableness in high-volume, low-complexity matters where lawyering is minimal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Power surveys also suggest that while high-fee cardholders are less satisfied with the reasonableness of their annual fee, they report higher overall satisfaction with their cards than peers with cheaper or no-fee products.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

“So, in order to assess the objective reasonableness of that, you would have to be able to discern what threat was being posed to the officer at the time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025

The inquiry would become fuller, more honest, and more faithful to the Fourth Amendment’s command of reasonableness, not just at the trigger’s pull, but in everything that made the trigger feel necessary.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2025

When he did speak, it was in the voice of judgment, saying merely, “Quite,” or “Indeed,” or “Aye,” or “There’s reasonableness, gentlemen.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson