Carbonell v. I.N.S.

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• holding that a district court order stating only “[i]t is so ordered” conferred judicial imprimatur and enforceability on an adjacent stipulation
• “We have held that a litigant can be a prevailing party even if he has not obtained affirmative relief in his underlying action.”
• a litigant can be a prevailing party even if 6 he has not obtained affirmative relief in his underlying action
• “[W]hen a court incorporates 20 the terms of a voluntary agreement into an order, that order is stamped with sufficient 21 ‘judicial imprimatur’ for the litigant to qualify as a prevailing party for the purpose of 22 awarding attorney's fees.”
• “[W]hen a court incorporates 20 the terms of a voluntary agreement into an order, that order is stamped with sufficient 21 ‘judicial imprimatur’ for the litigant to qualify as a prevailing party for the purpose of 22 awarding attorney's fees.”
• stipulated stay of deportation sufficient

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