Brickhouse v. Slayton

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that Rule 54(d) “creates a presumption in favor of awarding costs to the prevailing party.”
• holding that a prevailing party may recover litigation costs without regard to whether a third party advanced the funds for the costs
• holding that a mayor could not be the final policymaker with respect to planning and zoning when the city council had “the power to override” the mayor’s veto and “ha[d] the final vote” on zoning matters
• holding that mayor was not the final policymaker for the city when he vetoed the city council’s zoning decision because the city council could have overridden his veto, even though it never held a vote on the override
• affirming the decision of the district court that the plaintiff “failed to show [as] an essential element of its case” that the defendant had final policymaking authority
• “[N]o matter how much power an official has, no municipal liability exists if that offi- cial does not set the policy at issue.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).