Scott v. City of New York

This case returns to us following our remand of it to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Scheindlin, J.) in December of last year. See Scott v. City of New York, 626 F.3d 130 (2d Cir.2010) (per curiam). In that decision, we considered to what extent, if at all, our rule announced almost three decades ago in New York State Ass’n for Retarded Children v. Carey, Inc., 711 F.2d 1136 (2d Cir.1983), allows a district court to award attorney’s fees notwithstanding the fact that the applying attorney failed to keep contemporaneous time records. See Scott, 626 F.3d…