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File #: 2025-1781    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Reported from Standing Committee
File created: 4/25/2025 In control: Committee on Finance and Law
On agenda: 4/29/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
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Title: Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Bishop David A. Zubik for plaintiff counsel fees and costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. ? 1988(b) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d), in connection with a litigation matter in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:20-cv-1809-WSH for an amount not to exceed ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($168,500.00) over two years. (Executive Session held 4/29/25)
Indexes: WARRANT
Attachments: 1. 2025-1781 Cover Letter Council Letter Zubik, 2. Summary 2025-1781

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Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Bishop David A. Zubik for plaintiff counsel fees and costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d), in connection with a litigation matter in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:20-cv-1809-WSH for an amount not to exceed ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($168,500.00) over two years.

(Executive Session held 4/29/25)

 

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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

 

Section 1.                     The Mayor is hereby authorized to issue and the City Controller to countersign a warrant in favor Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Bishop David A. Zubik for plaintiff counsel fees and costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d), in connection with a litigation matter in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:20-cv-1809-WSH for an amount not to exceed ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($168,500.00) over two years, charging and payable from the following:

 

2025 Payment - 11101.108000.58.58105.2025 - $117,950.00

2026 Payment - 11101.108000.58.58105.2026 - $50,550.00