Legal Opinion
McDaniel v. County of Schenectady
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 16, 2010No. 15-1732PublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs-Appellants appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Sharpe, J.), approving the settlement of a class action arising from alleged violations of the their constitutional rights, but awarding less than the requested fee to their attorneys from the common fund established by the settlement. Rather than base its attorneys’ fees calculation on a percentage of the fund, the district court elected to calculate fees using a variant of the lodestar method described by this Court in Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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