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reducing hours in attorneys' fees application because the "substantial amount of block billing in the fee requests here renders it difficult to determine whether, and/or the extent to which the work done by plaintiff's attorneys is duplicative or unnecessary"
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07-CV-5249(TCP)
03-07-2013
WAYNE SPENCE, Plaintiff, v. ANTHONY G. ELLIS, individually, JOSE BURGOS, individually, THEODORE A. COOK, individually, Defendants.
ORDER
PLATT, District Judge.
Before the Court is Magistrate Judge Arlene R. Lindsay's Report and Recommendation (DE 87) concerning plaintiff Wayne Spence's attorney's request for fees and costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988.
After thorough consideration of the Report along with plaintiff's objections and defendants' opposition to those objections, the undersigned holds that the Report's calculation of the attorney's fees and costs was proper under the circumstances of this case. Accordingly, the Report and Recommendation is hereby adopted its entirety. Plaintiff is therefore awarded the sum of $177,108.75 in attorney's fees and the sum of $12,317.12 in costs from defendants for a total sum of $189,425.87.
SO ORDERED.
Dated: March 7, 2013
Central Islip, New York
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Thomas C. Platt, U.S.D.J.