United States Second Circuit

In plaintiffs' appeal from an attorney's fee award in a class action challenging defendant-county's strip search policy, the award is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to award attorneys' fees using a percentage-of-fund approach, in the extent of its reliance on Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Ass'n. v. County of Albany, 493 F.3d 110 (2d Cir. 2007), or in its application of the reasonableness factors set forth in Goldberger v. Integrated Resources, Inc., 209 F.3d 43 (2d Cir. 2000).

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/13/2009
• Decided 02/16/2010
• Published 02/16/2010

Judges

• LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:, Before WALKER, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, KAPLAN,District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elmer Robert Keach, III, Law Office of Elmer Robert Keach III, PC, Amsterdam, NY, Jason J. Rozger, Bruce E. Menken, Beranbaum, Menken, Ben-Asher & Bierman LLP, New York, NY, Jonathan Watson Cuneo, Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, Gary E. Mason, The Mason Law Firm, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• William G. Greagan, Goldberg Segalla, LLP, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees., Philip K. Howard, Jennifer O. Farina, Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY, as Amicus Curiae in support of Defendants-Appellees.