TINDER, Circuit Judge.
When a prevailing party is entitled to "a reasonable attorney's fee," see, e.g., 42 U.S.C. § 1988; 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), the district court must make that assessment, at least initially, based on a calculation of the "lodestar"—the hours reasonably expended multiplied by the reasonable hourly rate—and nothing else. See Pickett v. Sheridan Health Care,
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