Legal Opinion
Leeds v. Burns
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 6, 1994PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a proceeding pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law § 84 et seq.), the petitioner appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Posner, J.), dated September 8, 1992, as denied his application for attorneys’ fees.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The petitioner is not a lawyer and did not retain a lawyer to represent him in this proceeding. It was therefore, not possible for him to have earned or to have incurred the responsibility to pay attorneys’ fees. The award of attorneys’ fees sought by the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Donahue v. ThomasDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1992
- Lev v. LevConnecticut Appellate Court · 1987
- Washburn v. WashburnDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1984
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