A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Fifth Circuit Makes It Easier to Recover Attorney Fees in Trademark Cases,” reports that, in a decision that will make it easier for litigants to recover attorney...
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Ninth Circuit Vacates Fee Award in Nobel Implant Row
April 29, 2016
A recent Law 360 story, “9th Circ. Vacates $2.3M Fee Award in Nobel Implant Row,” reports that the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday vacated $2.3 million in fees awarded to the attorneys for a dentist in...
Former Texas Attorney Wins Fees on Appeal
April 22, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Former Galveston Attorney Wins Appeal on Attorney Fees” reports that a Houston appeals court issued an opinion affirming a judgment awarding former Galveston...
Texas Supreme Court Issues Two Attorney Fee Rulings
April 19, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Texas Supreme Court Issues Two Attorney Fee Rulings” reports that the Texas Supreme Court today issued two rulings that favored parties seeking attorney fees in a...
Texas Supreme Court Asked to Undo $3M Fee Award
March 31, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Jenner & Block $3M Fee Award Appeal Could Change Arbitration Law” reports that a former patent client is taking its $3 million attorney fee fight against Jenner...
Plaintiffs Ask SCOTUS to Hear NCAA Fee Dispute
March 30, 2016
A recent Courthouse News story, “NCAA’s Legal Debt Reduced to $40.7 Million” reports that lawyers for the Ed O'Bannon plaintiffs on asked the Supreme Court to hear their antitrust case against...
EEOC’s Exposure to Attorney Fees Before SCOTUS
March 28, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Justices Ponder EEOC’s Exposure to Attorney Fees,” reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can be liable for an employer's legal fees if...
Ninth Circuit Won’t Expand ERISA Attorney Fee Provision
March 25, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “9th Cir. Won’t Expand ERISA Attorney Fee Provision,” reports that an employer that used bankruptcy law to avoid paying more than $500,000 to a group of union...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Circuit Rejects Advocates’ Bid to Sue SSA to Collect Fees,” reports that a company's attempt to force the Social Security Administration to step in and pay...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Circuit Denies En Banc Review in Fee Award Fight,” reports that a civil rights attorney fighting a 95 percent reduction in his fee award failed to convince a...