| 24-870 |
AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness |
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 p… |
| 24-267 |
John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split dismissal-without-prejudice fee-shifting judicial-discretion prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
Does a dismissal without prejudice that reestablishes the pre-suit status quo make a defendant the 'prevailing party' under fee-shifting statutes? |
| 24A91 |
John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees copyright-infringement eleventh-circuit prevailing-party rule-68 voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant who successfully defends against a copyright infringement lawsuit and obtains a voluntary dismissal without prejudice can be consi… |
| 23-621 |
Gerald F. Lackey, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 civil-rights injunction-standard judicial-procedure legal-merits merits preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as opposed to merely predicting a likelihood of later success,… |
| 23-565 |
Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
|
attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party |
What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under Section 505 of the Copyright Act? |
| 23A390 |
Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff who obtains a preliminary injunction that becomes moot can be considered a 'prevailing party' entitled to attorney's fees under 42… |
| 23-5104 |
Annelies Aiking-Taylor v. Oliver Serang |
Montana |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-judgment prevailing-party supremacy-clause takings |
Did the Montana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by disregarding the US Supreme Court's definition of 'prevailing party'? |
| 22-895 |
Murphy Creek, LLC, et al. v. Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 |
Colorado |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 attorneys-fees civil-rights common-nucleus common-nucleus-of-operative-fact judicial-relief prevailing-party section-1983 substantial-claim substantiality |
Whether the Colorado Courts erred in holding that the Petitioners were not 'prevailing parties' on their 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 claim |
| 22-773 |
Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a 'prevailing party' elig… |
| 21-1462 |
Cheryl Griffith v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees blum-v-stenson contract-principles fee-shifting fees-and-costs johnson-v-georgia-hwy-exp-inc market-rates prevailing-market-rate prevailing-party settlement-agreement statutory-fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Whether a settlement in a case covered by statutory fee shifting provisions requires fees to be determined under Blum v. Stenson's prevailing market r… |
| 21-7518 |
Jay Alan Myers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-rights due-process prevailing-party standing |
Whether a court can award a prevailing party attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 for time spent litigating a fee petition |
| 21-299 |
Montgomery County, Maryland v. Yasmin Reyazuddin |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-relief legal-standing prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff who obtains no judicial relief is a 'prevailing party' entitled to attorney's fees |
| 20-1542 |
Michael Mogan v. Jeff Henry, et al. |
California |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment 5th-amendment arbitration attorney california-court due-process prevailing-party sanctions |
Whether a California court can impose sanctions against an attorney without violating due-process |
| 20-7532 |
Noel Turner v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure capable-of-repetition civil-procedure constitutional-rights cost-of-suit due-process equal-protection evading-review prevailing-party |
Due-process-violation |
| 19-1439 |
Joey Jurgensen v. Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship prevailing-party standing sua-sponte-stay |
Whether a sua sponte stay ordered by the trial court, which directs the Agency to 'repair' the concerns and to 'finish' another review as sought by a … |
| 19-1337 |
Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure consent dismissal district-court-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure federal-courts frcp-41 FRCP-60(b) judicial-consent jurisdiction legal-representative magistrate-authority prevailing-party rule-60b standing |
Whether the District Court and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have created an exception to 28 USC 636 (c) |
| 19-1323 |
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland |
Whether the dismissal of a case for mootness can satisfy the 'prevailing party' standard |
| 19-1064 |
Kealii Makekau, et al. v. Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-attorneys-fees election-cancellation injunctions judicial-imprimatur merits prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court's grant of an injunction constitutes a sufficient consideration of the merits to be the 'judicial imprimatur' necessary for prevaili… |
| 19-6900 |
Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change |
Does Buckhannon apply in fee determinations under the Equal Access to Justice Act? |
| 19-677 |
Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients? |
| 19-659 |
Miladis Salgado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2465 abuse-of-discretion civil-forfeiture claimant court-dismissal dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-prevailing-party prevail prevailing-party statutory-interpretation without-prejudice |
When does a civil forfeiture claimant 'substantially prevail' under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1)? |
| 19-45 |
Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Deputy Sheriff of Augusta County, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
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christiansburg-garment civil-procedure court-order federal-statute fee-shifting legal-relationship prevailing-party rule-41 rule-41(a)(1) voluntary-dismissal |
Can a party qualify as a 'prevailing party' under a federal fee shifting statute when an adverse party voluntarily dismisses its claims under Rule 41(… |
| 18A1274 |
Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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attorney-fees civil-procedure fee-shifting prevailing-party statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a voluntary dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1) precludes a defendant from being considered a 'prevailing party' for purp… |