Simmons v. New York City Transit Authority

JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:

Once again we are called upon to clarify the boundaries of the attorney’s fees award. We recently delineated those boundaries in Arbor Hill Concerned, Citizens Neighborhood Ass’n v. County of Albany, 493 F.3d 110 (2d Cir.2007), amended on other grounds by 522 F.3d 182 (2d Cir.2008), in which we “abandon[ed]” the “lodestar” approach to awarding attorney’s fees, and adopted instead a “presumptively reasonable fee” calculation, whereby district courts are advised “to bear in mind all of the case-specific variables that we and other courts have identified as…