Scardace v. Mid Island Hospital, Inc.

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for discrimination and hostile work environment pursuant to Executive Law § 296, the plaintiffs’ outgoing counsel, Cary Scott Goldinger, appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Baisley, Jr., J.), dated January 21, 2009, which, in effect, granted his unopposed application to fix his attorney’s fee, for a recovery in quantum meruit, and for a charging lien against the plaintiffs only to the extent of awarding him a charging lien against the plaintiffs in the sum of $37,150.

Ordered that, on the Court’s own motion, the notice of…