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CODY v. HILLARD

United States Eighth Circuit
Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Class Actions
Attorneys fees award in a civil rights action by a class of prisoners, for work that culminated in a private settlement agreement dismissing the case,...
09/11/2002 00-3918

DEOCAMPO v. AHN

California Court of Appeal
Attorney's Fees, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice, Remedies
In a medical malpractice action, the court correctly used a settlement to offset damages owed by defendants, and properly declined to award...
08/29/2002 B147135

WININGER v. BOYDEN

United States Ninth Circuit
Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Securities Law
Where the district court had jurisdiction over a settlement fund, it was within its equitable power to award fees for work that helped to create that...
08/27/2002 00-15143/15298/16892, 01-15361

GONZALES v. TRANSFER TECH., INC.

United States Seventh Circuit
Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property, Copyright
The prevailing party in a copyright case, in which the stakes are small and the infringement willful, should have a presumptive entitlement to...
08/23/2002 01-4090

GREENE v. DILLINGHAM CONSTR. N.A., INC.

California Court of Appeal
Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights
An award of attorney's fees, for a period after plaintiff's rejection of defendant's informal settlement offer, was proper in a California Fair...
08/21/2002 A093438/093990

THOMPSON v. IRWIN HOME EQUITY CORP.

United States First Circuit
Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Plaintiffs were required to arbitrate their Truth in Lending Act claims where 1) a demand for rescission did not have the automatic effect of...
08/20/2002 01-2533

WATSON v. COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE

United States Ninth Circuit
Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights
A plaintiff who succeeds in obtaining a preliminary injunction (later rendered moot) can be deemed a prevailing party under 42 U.S.C. section 1988,...
08/20/2002 01-56214/298

MARTIN v. ARKANSAS BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD

United States Eighth Circuit
Attorney's Fees, ERISA
There is no presumption under 29 U.S.C. section 1132(g), in favor of awarding attorneys' fees to prevailing plaintiffs in ERISA cases, and use of a...
08/16/2002 00-3420

WESTAFF (USA) INC. v. ARCE

United States Ninth Circuit
Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
An action for reimbursement of medical benefits paid to an ERISA plan beneficiary was properly dismissed, based on ERISA's provision permitting suits...
08/15/2002 00-16178, 01-15751

PFEIFFER VENICE PROP. v. BERNARD

California Court of Appeal
Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure
A trial court retains jurisdiction to award attorney's fees to a prevailing defendant, whose SLAPP motion is not heard solely because the court...
08/14/2002 B152966

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