MA HAJIANPOUR, MD v. Khosrow Maleki

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the parties in a contractual dispute “battled to a draw” where the defendant defeated the plaintiff’s complaint and succeeded on his own counterclaims despite never collecting damages
• explaining that compelling circumstances existed for the trial justice to decline to award fees because neither party prevailed on the significant issues in the litigation
• discussing the “significant issues” test as the way to determine the prevailing party for the purpose of an attorney’s fees award
• “[I]t appears that the parties battled to a draw. It is not an abuse of discretion to decline to award attorney’s fees when a court determines that neither party prevailed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).