fee-award

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-980 Ariana M. v. Humana Health Plan of Texas, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees beneficiary-rights civil-rights employee-benefits erisa fee-award health-plan judicial-review legal-success legal-victory standard-of-review The question presented is whether a beneficiary achieves "some success on the merits" for purposes of a fee award under ERISA Section 502(g)(1) when s…
19-73 Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically contravene this Court's decision in Fogerty v. Fantasy Inc.?
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui…