Mercantile National Bank at Dallas v. Bradford Trust Company, N/k/a Fidata Trust Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that federal courts may only award attorneys’ fees in declaratory judgment actions, which originated under state law, where federal law authorizes the award
• holding that the federal Declaratory Judgment Act “does not by itself provide statutory authority to award attorney’s fees that would . . . otherwise be available under state law in a diversity action”
• finding that in a declaratory judgment action based upon diversity, liability for attorney fees depends on state law
• “The federal Declaratory Judgment Act ‘does not by itself provide statutory authority to award attorney’s fees that would not otherwise be available under [substantive] state law in a diversity action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).