Pedro Rodriguez v. Veronica Rodriguez

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• recognizing that an affidavit from a member of the conference committee that drafted the legislation “might be entitled to some weight if it had been made contemporaneously with the passage of the legislation”
• “This [‘significant catalyst’ inquiry], at best, is an uncertain, elusive, and imponderable concept; the very kind of issue which cries for reliance on informed discretion”
• “[T]he causal relation between the lawsuit and the relief received ‘must be more than simple knowledge that litigation may occur’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).