Hodge v. Development Services of America

How courts have described this case

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• noting defendants should be clear whether their offer of judgment includes attorney fees, in fairness to plaintiffs who may be caught off-guard if the underlying statute defines “attorney fees” as part of “costs”
• “We agree with the Marek holding that ‘costs’ [under Washington Superior Court Civil Rule 68] may or may not include attorneys’ fees depending on the underlying statute in question.”
• “We agree with the Marek holding that ‘costs’ [under Washington Superior Court Civil Rule 68] may or may not include attorneys’ fees depending on the underlying statute in question.”
• “[I]t would be prudent practice and we strongly recommend that where a defendant intends that his offer shall include any attorneys’ fees provided for in the underlying statute he expressly so state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).