United States Tenth Circuit
FED. DEPOSIT INS. CO. v. SCHUCHMANN, 01-2003
An award of attorney fees and costs, under the bad faith exception to the "American Rule" pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. section 2412(b), is reversed where the district court's conclusory finding of bad faith or improper motive amounted to an abuse of discretion.
Appellate Information
- Decided 02/18/2003
- Published 02/18/2003
Judges
- BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, ANDERSON, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Tenth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Lawrence H. Richmond, Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, (Ann S. DuRoss, Assistant General Counsel, and Colleen J. Boles, Senior Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, DC; F. Thomas Hecht and Claudette P. Miller, Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, IL, with him on the briefs), for the Plaintiff-Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Douglas P. Lobel, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, (Alice Tomlinson Lorenz, Miller, Stratvert & Torgerson, P.A., Albuquerque, New Mexico; Joseph F. Yenouskas, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Washington, DC, with him on the brief), for the Defendant-Appellee.