In response to that suit, the Mets started sending the checks to the Tallahassee bankruptcy court and filed a countersuit asking the judge to decide who should get what and to shield the team from liability and award it attorney fees for its trouble in the matter.
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The Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act would give courts more power to award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.
If you successfully prosecute the cause of action, you can recover damages and costs of the action, including attorney fees.
The Opinion does not say what attorney fees that Michael Cohen had to spend to defend this action (the Court refused to allow Stephen Cohen to intervene), but we can guess that the fees were substantial.
After 8 weeks of testimony, and tens of millions of dollars in defense attorney fees, the jury should have received instructions from U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney to determine a verdict, but they did not.
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The Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling of the lower court, holding that CCA must produce documents that it had refused to disclose, as well as pay attorney fees and costs in the case.
If your case is not settled but goes to trial, and the jury finds for you on liability, then the jury may award you such actual damages as it finds you have proved, as well as attorney fees and other costs of the action.
Under the federal law parents can recover attorney fees from their school district if they win hearings, but not if they settle.
But estimates show that variables such as travel, visa and attorney fees can drive up the cost.
In an appearance before the NAACP in Houston, the attorney general likened the voter ID law in Texas to a poll tax, the fees once imposed across much of the South that made it impossible for many African Americans to vote.
Zillow is seeking a permanent injunction against the alleged infringement, damages and attorney's fees.
Sarwal of the ACC said his group may push the federal courts to adopt tougher rules on attorney fees in class actions.
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Such a lawsuit can sound in defamation and negligence, among other theories, and it can seek actual as well as punitive damages, and attorney fees and other costs of the action.
Entrant further agrees that in any cause of action, the Giveaway Entities' liability will be limited to the cost of entering and participating in the Giveaway, and in no event shall the Giveaway Entities be liable for attorney's fees.
The spokesman said experience has shown that has ended up costing the government about seven million dollars a year for attorney's fees.
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Specifically, the Act provides an independent cause of action for a whistle-blower who has experienced employer retaliation, which allows the whistle-blower to recover double back pay with interest and attorney fees.
"There was a huge incentive for the Southern lawyers to get a bigger piece of the pie for their clients so they'd have to share less money in fees with the Northern lawyers, " said Irving Cohen, attorney for the eight Northern steelworkers who originally brought the suit.
Plus there are dockage and registration fees, taxes, insurance and the cost of a good mari-time attorney.
By handing temp-attorney hours to other firms, lead lawyers may lessen the temptation for those others to compete on fees in other cases, Pentz suggests.
Chevron has virtually no assets in Ecuador, and it has spent millions of dollars in legal fees to try and prove that New York attorney Steven Donziger and his colleagues obtained the Ecuadorean judgment through fraud.
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He recently rapped the knuckles of the U.S. Attorney's office pursuing the case for improper interference in arm-twisting KPMG into refusing to pay the legal fees of its employees.
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