Carole Heller Weitzman, as Assignee of Saul Weitzman v. Sidney Stein, Norman Rubinson and Albert Feiffer, Barry Schwartz, Esq.

OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is the second appeal in Carole Weitz-man’s quest for damages, attorney fees and other costs incurred as a result of defendants’ attorney’s contempt of a court order dated May 16, 1988. Weitzman invokes this court’s authority under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm the amount of legal fees calculated thus far, but reverse the denial of fees and costs from the appeal.

In 1978, Saul Weitzman obtained a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Sidney Stein, and assigned the judgment to his wife, Carole Weitzman. A decade…