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EASTWAY CONST. CORP. v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 249, Docket 86-7504.

821 F.2d 121 (1987)

EASTWAY CONSTRUCTION CORP., George Jaffee, Irving H. Kanarek, and Robert Jacobs, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, Nathan Leventhal, individually and as Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, Anthony G. Gliedman, individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Charles Reiss, individually and as Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Office of Development, Defendants-Appellants, and The Community Preservation Corporation, Michael Lappin, individually and as President of the Community Preservation Corporation, John Does one through fifty, and Chemical Bank, N.A., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Kolikoff, New York City (Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Edward F.X. Hart, John P. Woods, New York City, on brief), for defendants-appellants.

James M. LaRossa, New York City (John W. Mitchell, Karen F. Silverman, LaRossa, Mitchell & Ross, New York City, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, NEWMAN, and PRATT, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

In Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York, 762 F.2d 243 (2d Cir.1985) ("Eastway I"), a panel of this Court determined that the prevailing municipal defendants should receive an award of "a reasonable attorney's fee" and remanded the case for the determination of the appropriate amount. On remand, Chief Judge Weinstein concluded that, although the lodestar amount of a fee based on...

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