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ARBOR HILL CONCERNED CITIZENS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC. v. COUNTY OF ALBANY

Docket No. 06-0086-cv.

493 F.3d 110 (2007)

ARBOR HILL CONCERNED CITIZENS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, Albany County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Aaron Mair, Maryam Mair, and Mildred Chang, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF ALBANY and Albany County Board of Elections, Defendants-Appellees, and The Republican Caucus of the Albany County Legislature, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 24, 2007.

Amended: July 12, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell A. Karlan (Mark E. Bini and Michelle Craven, on the brief), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Thomas J. O'Connor, Napierski, Vandenburgh & Napierski, LLP, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER, Circuit Judge, O'CONNOR, Associate Justice Retired.

AMENDED OPINION1

JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from the district court's disposition of their motion for an award of attorney's fees, plaintiffs-appellants ("plaintiffs"), who prevailed in a suit brought under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ("VRA"), seek a recalculation of the amount that they may recoup. The fee — historically known as the "lodestar" — to which their attorneys are presumptively...

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