L.S-C. v. N.Y.C. Dep't of Educ.

Full title: L.S-C., Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION et al…

Court: United States District Court, S.D. New York

Date published: May 31, 2022

21-cv-11198 (LJL) (S.D.N.Y. May. 31, 2022)

Opinion

21-cv-11198 (LJL)

05-31-2022

L.S-C., Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION et al, Defendants.

LEWIS J. LIMAN, United States District Judge:

ORDER

LEWIS J. LIMAN, United States District Judge:

The parties' proposed briefing schedule at Dkt. No. 18 is approved.

The parties are directed to meet and confer prior to the filing of the motion for summary judgment regarding Plaintiff's requests for attorneys' fees. The parties are further ordered to adhere to the following procedures:

• Along with the motion for summary judgment, Plaintiff shall file a chart indicating the total hours billed for each professional (attorney or paralegal) on each phase of the case (administrative or federal).

• When the motion for summary judgment is filed, Plaintiff is to provide Defendants (but need not file with the Court) an itemized chart of billing records (in either word processing or spreadsheet format) where each row of the chart is a separate billing entry and each row of the chart is consecutively numbered.

• If Defendants object to any billing entries, Defendants shall identify their objections next to each billing entry along with the specific basis for each objection (in a separate column). Overbroad objections or objections made without specificity will be disregarded. Defendants shall file this chart with its opposition to the motion for summary judgment and shall provide this chart to Plaintiff in word processing or spreadsheet format. In the memorandum in opposition to Plaintiff's motion, Defendants shall refer to the billing entries by row number (but may for convenience address objections made on the identical basis as a group). Any objections not identified with specificity in the chart shall be deemed to be waived.

• In reply, Plaintiff's responses to each of Defendants' objections shall be made in a separate column of the chart. In reply briefing, Plaintiff shall refer to the billing entries by row number.

For reference, below please find a sample template for the chart. (The template is for illustrative purposes only, and the parties may deviate from this template so long as they adhere to the instructions above.)

(Table Omitted)

SO ORDERED.