Hughes Equipment Co. v. Fife

How courts have described this case

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

• “[Permitting [the] recovery of attorney[’s] fees by [the] defendant in all cases of [a], voluntary dismissal before trial would encourage plaintiffs to maintain pointless litigation in moot cases or against insolvent defendants to avoid liability for those fees,”
• “[P]ermitting [the] recovery of attorney[’s] fees by [the] defendant in all cases of [a] voluntary dismissal before trial would encourage plaintiffs to maintain pointless litigation in moot cases or against insolvent defendants to avoid liability for those fees.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).