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KAHN v. CHETCUTI

Attorney's Fees, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate
A real estate purchase agreement authorized an arbitrator to determine whether the prevailing party's act of filing a complaint before an obligatory...

PEABODY COAL CO. v. ESTATE OF J.T. GOODLOE

Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits, Health Law
A finding of entitlement to Black Lung benefits was proper where the interim presumption of total disability due to pneumoconiosis was correctly...

BIRMINGHAM v. OMAHA SCH. DIST.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Education Law
An ongoing dispute over the adequacy of a court-approved Individualized Education Plan (IEP) did not prevent plaintiffs from being prevailing parties...

RENWICK v. BENNETT

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Sanctions
Bankruptcy court correctly rejected parol evidence under California law where a settlement agreement provision was not reasonably susceptible to the...

MCCASKILL v. SCI MGMT. CORP.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
An arbitration agreement, which bars an employee's ability to recover attorneys' fees under Title VII, is unenforceable where counsel made a binding...

BERKLA v. COREL CORP.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Plaintiff is precluded from recovering tort remedies form a breach of confidence claim when he recovered on a claim for breach of a non-disclosure...

UTILITY AUTOMATION 2000, INC. v. CHOCTAWHATCHEE ELEC. COOP., INC.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
Because the Alabama Trade Secrets Act does not define costs to include attorney's fees, plaintiff may not recover its attorneys' fees under the "costs...

JORDAN v. CALIFORNIA DEP'T OF MOTOR VEHICLES

Attorney's Fees, Constitutional Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Environmental Law, Transportation
An arbitration award of fees and expenses (totalling over $88 million), after settlement of an action holding that the vehicle smog impact fee was...

APEX OIL CO. v. ARTOC BANK & TRUST, LTD.

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law
A claimant was not estopped to file a claim for wrongful setoffs in bankruptcy proceedings; an attorney's fee award is reduced where it was excessive...

NAGLE v. EXPERIAN INFO. SOLUTIONS, INC.

Attorney's Fees, Consumer Protection Law
A plaintiff who was not awarded actual damages in an action to enforce liability under the Fair Credit Reporting Act was not "successful", and was not...