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US v. MANCHESTER FARMING P'SHIP

Agriculture, Attorney's Fees, Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of a Hyde Amendment request for attorneys' fees and costs is affirmed, where appellants failed to show that the government pursued a frivolous...

PUNSLY v. HO

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Family Law
Denial of attorneys' fees, incurred in a visitation dispute with paternal grandparents, was proper under the private attorney general theory of Code...

LIBAS, LTD. v. US

Attorney's Fees, Commercial Law, International Trade
The Court of International Trade did not sufficiently explain its rationale for denying attorneys' fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice...

IN RE SENDECKY

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
District court did not err in dismissing a complaint seeking to prevent entry of a bankruptcy discharge, as it failed to state a valid cause of...

HANLIN v. US

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Government Benefits
No implied-in-fact contract arose between an attorney and the Department of Veterans Affairs, so that the attorney could not recover his fees, which...

ZEISL v. WATMAN

Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, International Law
No basis exists for a finding that attorney's fees paid to lawyers, for services rendered in connection with the creation of a multi-billion dollar...

LOWTHER v. LOWTHER

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Family Law
An obligation to pay attorney's fees awarded in a divorce and custody proceeding was dischargeable in bankruptcy, because a parent's income and the...

KRECIOCH v. US

Asset Forfeiture, Attorney's Fees, Property Law & Real Estate
In a claim for a bill of costs after the government seized personal property, fees incurred for drafting of legal documents could not be classified as...

ESTATE OF MCADAMS

Attorney's Fees
Because litigation over the validity of a trust amendment was a dispute between competing trust beneficiaries, not a challenge to the trust itself,...

CAUFIELD v. CANTELE

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Plenary appeal is proper for a district court to review a trial court determination of attorneys' fees and costs after voluntary dismissal, and the...