Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Engida

How courts have described this case

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• applying the abuse of discretion standard when reviewing an award of attorney fees under the Lanham Act
• “[A] district court need not have subject matter jurisdiction to award attorney’s fees pursuant to [Colo. Rev. Stat. §] 13-17-102.”
• sanctions under state statute for frivolous claim “may be imposed despite 4 a court’s lack of subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate the underlying merits of the action” (quotation omitted)
• “Further, a claim lacks substantial justification if it lacks supporting evidence or the party pursing the claim cannot make a rational argument in its support based on the evidence or governing law.”
• “In reviewing state law awards of attorney’s fees, . . . it has been our consistent practice to look to our own precedent on this purely procedural issue—viz., the applicable standard of review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).