Priester v. Ashe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when awarding costs pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b
• “prevailing party” status is not justified based on “gratuitous judicial endorsement of legislative and administrative action”
• interest calculated from date correct award would have been entered but for the District Court’s error
• plaintiffs prevailed in suit against Secretary of DPW and state hospital administrators to the extent legislative enactments addressed plaintiff’s concerns
• the action need not be the sole cause, it must merely be a material factor; the “most expansive definition” of causation is to be applied
• focus of the prevailing party analysis is on “the relief actually obtained”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).