United States Second Circuit

A district judge's authority to reduce the fee awarded to a prevailing plaintiff below the lodestar by reason of the plaintiff's "partial or limited success" is not restricted to cases in which the plaintiff won only a nominal victory.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2005
• Published 07/18/2005

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge., Before:  LEVAL and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sara A. Duncan, Law Offices of Duncan and Duncan, Albany, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John L. Orfan, Friedman, Hirschen, Miller & Campito, P.C., Schenectady, NY, for Defendant-Appellees.