No. 24-870

AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-02-13
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Experienced Counsel
Tags: attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness
Key Terms:
Trademark
Latest Conference: 2025-04-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing party's attorney fees?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

When a federal district court is to award attorney fees to a prevailing party under statute or contract, [t]he district court [] should exclude . . . hours that were not ‘reasonably expended.’” Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 434 (1983). The question presented is: Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party’s fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing party’s attorney fees?

Docket Entries

2025-04-21
Petition DENIED.
2025-04-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2025.
2025-02-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 17, 2025)
2024-12-19
Application (24A610) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until February 10, 2025.
2024-12-16
Application (24A610) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 26, 2024 to February 10, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

AMN Distribution, Inc., A Delaware Corporation, et al.
David ZarmiZarmi Law, Petitioner