United States Eleventh Circuit

Although anticipated attorneys' fees may properly be included within an appellate cost bond issued by a district court pursuant to either Fed. R. App. P. 7 or the court's inherent power, such inclusion was error because the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act's fee-shifting provision does not define "costs" to include attorneys' fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/09/2002
• Published 12/09/2002

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and UNGARO-BENAGES, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kent F. Brooks,Melvin J. Klein, Dallas, TX, Paul S. Rothstein, Paul S. Rothstein & Associates, N. Albert Bacharach, Jr., Gainesville, FL, R. Stephen Griffis, Hooper & Griffis, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Elizabeth F. Savage, Ernest H. Kelley, Debra J. Kelley, Elvis Gates and Melissa Gates.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles A. Bentley, Jr., Bentley & Associates, P.A., Michael D. Calhoun, Gulley and Calhoun, Durham, NC, James W. Purcell, Fulcher, Hagler, Reed, Hanks & Harper, Thomas W. Tucker, Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Long & Brewton, P.A., Augusta, GA, James F. McCabe, Stephen E. Paffrath, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Melinda Lawrence, Patterson, Harkavy & Lawrence, L.L.P., Raleigh, NC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.