Legal Opinion
Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided May 23, 1986No. CV-84-0690PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge:
This matter was remanded for the awarding of attorney’s fees under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York, 762 F.2d 243 (2d Cir.1985) {“Eastway I’). For the reasons indicated below, a modest portion of defendant's attorney’s fees is assessed against the plaintiffs, while no fees are assessed against plaintiffs’ counsel.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Plaintiff Eastway Construction Corporation is a general contractor that during the 1960s and 1970s engaged exclusively in construction work on…
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