Noyes v. Staples

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• recognizing that attorney’s fees unrelated to ongoing litigation but instead claimed as an element of damages may be recovered as compensatory damages
• holding that the Legislature’s use of the word “costs” did not include attorney’s fees as the definition of “litigation costs” elsewhere included both costs and attorney’s fees
• holding that attorney's fees incurred in prosecuting or defending litigation are not compensatory damages and thus need not be superseded pending appeal under Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 52.006
• concluding that “fees comprising the breach-of-contract damages are” actual damages
• concluding, in context of chapter 52, that attorney’s fees incurred in prosecution or defense of claim are not compensatory damages
• holding attorney’s fees are not “costs awarded in the judgment” as set forth in Rule 24

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