Rifkind v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting eases of other circuits holding that a defendant is entitled to recover attorneys fees or costs for work not useful in continuing litigation between the parties
• reversing attorneys' fees award based on fee application in chart form with only general descriptions
• noting 27 “work product rendered useless by the dismissal should be awarded as a condition 28 of the voluntary dismissal”
• “Only those costs incurred for the preparation of work product rendered useless 5 by the dismissal should be awarded as a condition of the voluntary dismissal.”
• a defendant is only entitled to recover, as a condition of dismissal under Rule 41(a)(2), attorneys fees or costs for work which is not useful in continuing litigation between the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).