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SIMMONS v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY

Docket No. 08-4079-cv(L).

575 F.3d 170 (2009)

Rosetta SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, and John Doe # 1-3, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 3, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Antollino, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

Steve S. Efron, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, JOHN M. WALKER, JR., and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.

JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:

Once again we are called upon to clarify the boundaries of the attorney's fees award. We recently delineated those boundaries in Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Ass'n v. County of Albany, 493 F.3d 110 (2d Cir.2007), amended on other grounds by 522 F.3d 182 (2d Cir.2008), in which we "abandon[ed]" the "lodestar" approach to awarding attorney...

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