Attorney's fee application in a civil rights case. Plaintiffs prevailed in overturning an unconstitutional youth curfew law enacted by the City of Rochester, New York. This memo of law addresses the legal definition of "prevailing party," the lodestar calculation or the presumptively reasonable fee, enhancements or multipliers and the Johnson factors.
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State, 2nd Circuit, New York |
United States
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