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· 8/30/1985

Cohen v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.

Citations

  • 617 F. Supp. 619
  • 227 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 889

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that “we must remember that it wasn’t the defendant who chose to litigate”
  • tracing the evolution of the Second Circuit's dual standard rule and concluding that earlier cases upon which it supposedly rests do not require bad faith or frivolousness—\[the dual standard rule] is the culmination of a long line of bootstrapping from nothing to something\
  • tracing the evolution of the Second Circuit’s dual standard rule and concluding that earlier cases upon which it supposedly rests do not require bad faith or frivolousness — “[the dual standard rule] is the culmination of a long line of bootstrapping from nothing to something”

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Judges: Warriner

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