Opinion ID: 180172
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: District Court Order and Judgment

Text: The district court awarded Puccio $515,179.28 in attorney's fees; or, roughly twenty-five percent of the fees that he originally sought. Relevant to this appeal, the court calculated Puccio's fees based on an hourly rate of $550 per houra rate higher than that applied to any of Puccio's co-counsel, and reduced his overall fees by twenty percent for suspicious multiple entries and to sanction Puccio, in part, for not submitting contemporaneous time records. [1] Scott v. City of New York, 2009 WL 2610747, at  (S.D.N.Y. Aug.25, 2009). Both parties appealed. [2] The City appeals the district court's order to the extent that it awards Puccio any fees at all. It asserts that in the Second Circuit failure to keep contemporaneous time records serves as a complete bar to recovery of attorney's fees available under federal law. Puccio cross-appeals, challenging the hourly rate set by the district court to calculate his fees. He maintains that the court should have relied on his declaration that he is generally paid at the rate of $750.00 and $1,000.00 per hour. (Appellee-Cross-Appellant's Br. 16.)