A Buffalo lawyer who pushed a “meritless” housing discrimination claim through administrative channels and then federal trial and appellate courts has been ordered to pay $107,322 in attorney fees after a judge rejected her claims that if the case was so baseless it should have been tossed before defense costs soared into the triple figures.
Western District Judge John Curtin (See Profile), who had denied fees until the matter was remanded by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, directed Suzanne Taylor to pay the expenses of nine Phillips Lytle attorneys and several paralegals who committed 557 hours to defending the Harbour Pointe Homeowners Association.
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