Gym Door Repairs v. Guardian Gym Equip.

── Gym Door Repairs v. Guardian Gym Equip. ── Case No.: 23-7924 Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date: April 01, 2026 Category: General 23-7924 Gym Door Repairs v. Guardian Gym Equip. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING TO A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 1st day of April, two thousand twenty-six. PRESENT: RICHARD C. WESLEY, RICHARD J. SULLIVAN, STEVEN J. MENASHI, Circuit Judges. _____________________________________ GYM DOOR REPAIRS, INC., SAFEPATH SYSTEMS LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. No. 23-7924 GUARDIAN GYM EQUIPMENT, QAPALA ENTERPRISES, INC., JAMES PETRIELLO,  Defendants-Appellants. Total Gym Repairs, Inc., Young Equipment Sales, Inc., Yes Service and Repairs Corporation, Richard Young, Brian Burke, Dennis Schwandtner, Tri−State Folding Partitions, Inc., Peter Mucciolo, Educational Data Services, Inc., New York State Department of Education Office of Facilities Planning, New York State School Facilities Association, Nassau BOCES, Bellmore Public Schools, New York City Department of Education, School Facilities Management Institute, Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Carl Thurnau, Individually and as Director of New York State Department of Education Office of Facilities Planning, Stephen Cole, Katharine Cole, Kathleen Cole, JOHN/JANE 1−10 DOE(S), Defendants. * _____________________________________ For Defendants-Appellants: Philip Furgang, Furgang & Adwar, LLP, New York, NY. For Plaintiffs-Appellees: KATHERINE J. DANIELS, Katherine Daniels LLC, North Salem, NY. Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (John Koeltl, Judge). * The Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to amend the caption as set forth above. 2  UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the May 15, 2024 judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. Appellants Guardian Gym Equipment, Qapala Enterprises, Inc., and James Petriello (together, “Guardian”) appeal from a judgment awarding them $56,285.00 in attorneys’ fees and $17,626.61 in costs following the conclusion of their long-running legal dispute with Appellees Gym Door Repairs, Inc. and Safepath Systems LLC (together, “GDRI”). On appeal, Guardian contends that the district court abused its discretion by (1) reducing Guardian’s counsel’s hourly billing rates; (2) refusing to award attorneys’ fees for post-summary-judgment briefing, including for “fees on fees” from time spent on the attorneys’-fee motion; and (3) reducing the requested fee award for excessive billing, vagueness, and block billing, as well as other “draconian and duplicative reductions.” Guardian Br. at 40. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, procedural history, and issues on appeal, to which we refer only as necessary to resolve this appeal. 3 I. Background.