Doreen Pino v. Raymond Locascio, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “not every tangential ramification of civil rights litigation ipso facto confers a benefit on society”
• explaining that attorney’s fees will be warranted in a nominal- damages case if the \lawsuit create[s] a new rule of liability that ser- ve[s] a significant public purpose\
• observing that “[t]he vast majority of civil rights litigation does not result in ground-breaking conclusions of law, and therefore, will only be appropriate candidates for fee awards if a plaintiff recovers some significant measure of damages or other meaningful relief’
• reversing attorneys' fee award where the plaintiff sought $ 21 million in damages but only received $ 1.00
• \The vast majority of civil rights litigation does not result in ground-breaking conclusions of law....\
• “The vast majority of civil rights litigation does not result in groundbreaking conclusions of law....”

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