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Baker Botts L.L.P. v. ASARCO LLC

Citations

  • 576 U.S. 121
  • 135 S. Ct. 2158
  • 83 U.S.L.W. 4428
  • 25 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 343
  • 73 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d 1017
  • 192 L. Ed. 2d 208
  • 2015 U.S. LEXIS 3920
  • 61 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 41
  • 2015 WL 2473336

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that, in the absence of an 4 express statutory provision, an attorney is not entitled to 5 compensation for litigating a fee request
  • explaining that under the “American Rule,” winning litigants generally do not recover additional expenses like attorney’s fees
  • recognizing deviations from American Rule “tend to authorize the award of ‘a reasonable attorney’s fee,’ ‘fees,’ or ‘litigation costs,’ and usually refer to a ‘prevailing party’ in the context of an adversarial ‘action.’”
  • recognizing deviations from American Rule “tend to authorize the award of ‘a reasonable attorney’s fee,’ ‘fees,’ or ‘litigation costs,’ and usually refer to a ‘prevailing party in the context of an adversarial ‘action.’”
  • interpreting the word “services” as of 1934 when the term was first used in the statute
  • discussing 23 the “American Rule,” where each party pays its own attorney fees despite the outcome, unless 24 there is a statute or contract providing otherwise

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Judges: Alito, Breyer, Ginsburg, III, Kagan, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor, Thomas

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