LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher

OPINION

GOETTEL, District Judge.

The Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded this Court’s Memorandum Decision of October 15,1996, concluding “that the district judge’s decision was based on clear errors of both fact and law.” 1 LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher, 143 F.3d 748, 757 (2d Cir.1998). The case was remanded for a calculation of a reasonable fee to be awarded to the plaintiffs “in light of their substantial victory against the Village,” id. at 763, despite the fact that the plaintiffs were completely unsuccessful as to most of the defendants and received neither compensatory nor punitive…