United States Second Circuit

In a dispute involving the scope of the Carey rule as applied to the award of attorney’s fees and arising from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s fee shifting provision, 29 U.S.C. section 216(b), judgment of the district court is reversed because a district court’s personal observation of an attorney’s work is not by itself a sufficient basis for permitting a deviation and awarding fees in the absence of contemporaneous records

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2011
• Published 05/24/2011

Judges

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• DEBRORAH A. BRENNER, THOMAS P. PUCCIO