Empire State Insurance Company v. Phillip Chafetz

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to allow jury to decide whether attorneys' fees should be awarded on claim based on state statute governing actions based on insurance policies
• “we have held that a claim for attorneys’ fees does not generate a right to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment.”
• “There was no common law right to attorney’s fees”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).