Wilder v. Bernstein

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This panel had before it last year an appeal by the City of New York (City or appellant) from a June 29, 1990 order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Ward, J.) awarding $355,388.85 in attorneys’ fees to appellees-intervenors, a group of 19 private child care agencies.1 We were asked on that appeal to determine whether the inter-venor group, which contributed importantly to the formation of the settlement we had previously approved in Wilder v. Bernstein, 848 F.2d 1338 (2d Cir.1988), was entitled to such an award under 42 U.S.C.…