United States Seventh Circuit

In a commercial fraud case alleging that defendant induced plaintiff to sign a release of its claims in litigation by promising to retain plaintiff as a distributor of its products, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed and awards of costs affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) a no-reliance clause in the release was enforceable to prevent plaintiff from recovering for fraud; and 2) the language of 28 U.S.C. section 1920(6) authorizing awards for "compensation of interpreters" does not authorize the awarding of fees for translation of written documents.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/01/2008
• Decided 09/03/2008
• Published 09/03/2008

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul F. Doyle (argued), William R. Golden, Jr., Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher Landau (argued), Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, Brian D. Sieve, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.