Brooklyn federal judge awards $3.7 million in attorney’s fees in FDNY suit
The lawyers representing defendants in a discrimination suit against the Fire Department of New York have been granted a multimillion-dollar attorney’s fee award. Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis found that the attorneys were entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees in accordance with the law.
Federal law allows for prevailing attorneys in civil cases to receive reasonable fees and reimbursement for reasonable costs. In this case, the law firm Levy Ratner, Scott + Scott and the Center for Constitutional Rights intervened in a suit filed by the United States Department of Justice against the FDNY challenging two written FDNY exams from 1999 and 2002.