Auguste v. Hammons

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Madden, J., upon decision of Salvador Collazo, J.), entered December 20, 1999, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the brief, in a hybrid CPLR article 78/declaratory judgment proceeding, granted petitioner’s application for attorney’s fees pursuant to 42 USC § 1988 and CPLR article 86, awarding petitioner attorney’s fees in the principal amount of $11,000, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the application denied.

*418Respondent New York City Department of Social Services (DSS) restored petitioner’s Medicaid benefits…