( March 19, 2025, 3:43 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a district court’s decision to award approximately $850,000 for attorney fees and costs to a New York man who was partially successful in a 2014 civil rights trial in which he alleged false arrest, malicious prosecution and denial of medical treatment, finding the abuse of discretion arguments made by a Nassau County, N. Y. , police officer to be “without merit. ”. . .