SUTTON v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY

Docket No. 04-0429-cv.

462 F.3d 157 (2006)

Cassie SUTTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Steven Sardisco, Michael DeMeo, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 28, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cassie Sutton, pro se, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Robert K. Drinan, New York City Transit Authority, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the brief, for Defendants-Appellees.

Rick Ostrove, Robert M. Agostisi, Leeds Morelli & Brown, P.C., Carle Place, N.Y., submitted papers for Leeds Morelli & Brown.

Before NEWMAN and POOLER, Circuit Judges; and BRIEANT, District Judge.


NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents an issue of appellate jurisdiction in an unusual context and a merits issue concerning the appropriate amount of a lien for the fee of a client's former attorneys, an issue also arising in a somewhat unusual context. Cassie Sutton endeavors to appeal from an award of a charging lien to her former attorneys in the amount of $10,490.50, an award that ultimately was incorporated in...

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