Chia-Lee Hsu v. Abbara

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[t]he words ‘shall be entitled’” mean that the court is “obligated to award attorney fees[] whenever the statutory conditions have been satisfied”
• discussing an amendment to § 1717 replacing “prevailing party” with “party prevailing on the contract” (emphasis added)
• party can be the prevailing party even if some relief is denied, so long as the party has “achieved its main litigation objective”
• “[I]n determining litigation success, courts should respect substance rather than form, and to this extent should be guided by ‘equitable considerations.’ ”
• “[I]n determining 4 litigation success, courts should respect substance rather than form, and to this extent should be guided by ‘equitable considerations.’
• a defendant is 16 the “prevailing party” under section 1717 when it “defeats recovery by the plaintiff on the 17 only contract claim in the action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).