Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (p.e.d.f.) v. Canon-Mcmillan School District

*230OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

The factors that should be considered in a court’s determination of a counsel fee award and the procedure to be used in that connection, issues that occupied all levels of the federal judiciary for numerous years, have finally been resolved through a series of decisions of the United States Supreme Court. The question before us is whether, after all the effort that went into that resolution, we will allow the courts of this circuit to bypass the Supreme Court’s explicit directions merely because counsel failed to interpose an objection to the…