American Employers Insurance Company v. American Security Bank, N.A. American Security Bank, N.A. v. American Employers Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming a finding of no bad faith to justify attorneys’ fees because “the law on the issue” before the district court “was not settled”
• stating that the common law “allows an award of attorneys’ fees when the party has been the victim of unwarranted, oppressive, or vexatious conduct on the part of his opponent and has been forced to sue to enforce a plain legal right”
• stating that the common law “allows an award of attorneys’ fees when the party has been the victim of unwarranted, oppressive, or vexatious conduct on the part of his opponent and has been forced to sue to enforce a plain legal right”
• spotting no “plain legal right” for purposes of a bad faith finding where deciding the claim “required . . . interpretation” of contracts and “the law on the issue . . . was not settled”
• attorneys’ fees permitted “when the party has been the victim of unwarranted, oppressive, or vexatious conduct on the part of his opponent and has been forced to sue to enforce a plain legal right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).