WEITZMAN v. STEIN

Nos. 145, 603, Dockets 95-7757, 96-7086.

98 F.3d 717 (1996)

Carole Heller WEITZMAN, as assignee of Saul Weitzman, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sidney STEIN, Norman Rubinson and Albert Feiffer, Defendants, Barry Schwartz, Esq., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Venezia, New York City (A. Ali Yusaf, on the Brief, Law Offices of Louis Venezia at Union Square, P.C., of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Barry S. Schwartz, New York City (Law Office of Barry S. Schwartz, of counsel), Respondent-Appellee, pro se.

Before OAKES and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and CONNER, District Judge.


OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is the second appeal in Carole Weitzman's quest for damages, attorney fees and other costs incurred as a result of defendants' attorney's contempt of a court order dated May 16, 1988. Weitzman invokes this court's authority under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm the amount of legal fees calculated thus far, but reverse the denial of fees and costs from the appeal.

In 1978, Saul Weitzman obtained a judgment of the United States...

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