McDaniel v. County of Schenectady

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, in Goldberger, the Court “declined to ‘junk’ the lodestar method in favor of the presumptive or exclusive use of the percentage method”
• noting that the Second Circuit upheld a fee award with no multiplier where district court praised counsel as “cream of the profession”
• noting that a presumptively reasonable fee represents an approximation of “what a competitive market would bear”
• noting that a presumptively reasonable fee represents an approximation of “what a competitive market would bear”
• holding courts may award attorney's fees in common fund cases under either the lodestar or percentage method
• noting that a district court’s determination that a case was “an ordinary civil rights case in which liability appeared] reasonably certain” was not clearly erroneous

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