McDonald v. Hamilton Electric, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where the relevant statute provides for an award of “costs ... together with [rather than part of] a reasonable attorney’s fee” the fee does not constitute part of Rule 68 costs
• “[c]ourts should thus require that fee waivers be especially clear, lest they chill the representation that the legislature has chosen to promote”
• “Under Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a party may compromise a claim by offering a settlement to be entered against it in a form of a final judgment.”
• “The parties’ intentions are determined from the contract language.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).