Legal Opinion
Chiavarelli v. Williams
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 15, 2001PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered January 11, 2000, which denied so much of defendant’s post-trial motion as sought to set aside the jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, but granted the motion insofar as to reduce the total damage award to plaintiff from $3,000,000 to $400,000, unanimously modified, on the law, to vacate so much of the reduced damage award as awarded plaintiff attorneys’ fees, *256thus reducing the total award to $250,000, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
“Attorneys’ fees are not usually compensable in the absence of specific statutory…
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