| 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 |
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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… |