Khaled Kassim v. City of Schenectady and Michael T. Brockbank

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court may reduce attorney’s fees due to limited success so long as it “provide[s] a concise but clear explanation” for doing so (quoting Hensley, 461 U.S. at 437)
• affirming the district court’s authority to “reduce 10 the fee awarded to a prevailing plaintiff below the lodestar by 11 reason of the plaintiff’s ‘partial or limited success’”
• affirming district court’s authority “to reduce the fee awarded to a prevailing plaintiff below the lodestar by reason of the plaintiff’s partial or limited success” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• discussing attorneysʹ fees in connection with a claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• “Having shown no harm or loss attributable to the failure to give him a pre-deprivation hearing, [plaintiff] has shown no reason why the court’s restriction on compensatory damages deprived him of any entitlement.”
• where counsel is required to take action to address other sideʹs dilatory conduct, ʺthe hours required to litigate even a simple matter can expand enormouslyʺ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).